On Mon, Nov 11, 2019 at 01:08:05PM +0100, Frank Batschulat wrote: > On Mon, 11 Nov 2019 13:02:34 +0100, Chris Green <c...@isbd.net> wrote: > > > I have used the disk2vhd utility from Microsoft to create a .VHD file > > from a Windows 10 partition. However when I try and open it in vbx's > > Create Virtual Machine dialogue I get an error:- > > > > Could not get the storage format of the medium > > '/home/chris/vbx/W10/DESKTOP-94C2AC7.VHD' (VERR_NOT_SUPPORTED). > > > > Result Code: VBOX_E_IPRT_ERROR (0x80BB0005) > > Component: MediumWrap > > Interface: IMedium {4afe423b-43e0-e9d0-82e8-ceb307940dda} > > Callee: IVirtualBox {9570b9d5-f1a1-448a-10c5-e12f5285adad} > > Callee RC: VBOX_E_OBJECT_NOT_FOUND (0x80BB0001) > > > > So, did I do something wrong or has the file got corrupted somewhere > > along the way? (It did take a rather long, slow, convoluted course). > > describing how exactly you created that file using disk2vhd, > which version of disk2vhd and from where you got it > would certainly be of help to evaluate this problem. > It was disk2vhd v2.01 downloaded from the Microsoft www.sysinternals.com web page.
I ran it on the W10 system, unclicked the 'Use Vhdx' and 'Use Volume Shadow Copy' boxes, writing the .VHD file to a USB memory stick which I then mounted on my Linux box to copy it for VirtualBox to use. I'm currently running VirtualBox 5.2.34 on xubuntu 19.04. -- Chris Green _______________________________________________ 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