On 3/6/2014 2:51 PM, vbox-users-community-requ...@lists.sourceforge.net wrote: > On Wed, Mar 05, 2014 at 01:57:17AM -0500, John Perry wrote: >> >Greg Novak wrote: > BTW, you've got my last name spelled wrong.
Oops! Sorry, Greg. The last time I replied to list, Tbird didn't copy the message and I had to copy manually and edit it myself. This time it did; maybe it was because I was expecting to have to do the same and had copied before I hit the reply list button. I think it's because I get the digest edition of the list. > >> >There were two: opensuse 13.1.vbox-prev and opensuse 13.1.vbox-tmp. Both >> >gave exactly the same result. >> > >> >------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >opensuse 13.1.vbox-tmp (timestamp 2/26, the later): >> > >> >Cannot register the DVD image 'C:\Program >> >Files\Oracle\VirtualBox\VBoxGuestAdditions.iso' >> >{27be2462-77a0-468a-a74f-42dfd736e305} because a CD/DVD image 'C:\Program >> >Files\Oracle\VirtualBox\VBoxGuestAdditions.iso' with UUID >> >{327a0f62-986c-4de5-9564-e8400070cc0a} already exists. >> >Result Code: E_INVALIDARG (0x80070057) >> >Component: VirtualBox >> >Interface: IVirtualBox {fafa4e17-1ee2-4905-a10e-fe7c18bf5554} > Can you go into the virtual media manager, and look under the optical > disks tab? If the iso in question is there, see if you can remove > it. If you're able to remove it, try replacing the .vbox file again, > and your guest should hopefully work again at that point. This worked perfectly. When I removed the (3!) existing guest addition iso's, the machine came right up and told me I needed to update them from 4.2.1.8 (!) for best results. First, though, I had to release the versionless VBoxGuestAdditions.iso from a previous, now unused VM so i could then remove it. Then I renamed the "opensuse 13.1.vbox-tmp" file from 2/26 (-prev was from 2/23) and restarted the manager. Came up with the machine accessible; machine started just fine. And it even came up with my six desktops and all their applications intact, just as if I'd never left my keyboard! And the 4.3.8 guest additions was there ready to compile (well, some iso was there -- how do I make sure it's actually 4.3.8 r92456? I'd installed guest additions with each update since first building the machine). Thanks so very much! Someday I may try KVM or Xen again, but VB is working too well for me now to bother. Suse runs just as fast as W7. If I could get suse to boot on this new Samsung laptop, suse would be my main system and W7 the VM, but even that has receded in importance to me, since I can't tell the difference now between W7 and suse in performance. john ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Subversion Kills Productivity. Get off Subversion & Make the Move to Perforce. With Perforce, you get hassle-free workflows. Merge that actually works. Faster operations. Version large binaries. Built-in WAN optimization and the freedom to use Git, Perforce or both. Make the move to Perforce. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=122218951&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ VBox-users-community mailing list VBox-users-community@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vbox-users-community _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe: mailto:vbox-users-community-requ...@lists.sourceforge.net?subject=unsubscribe