Clayton Dukes wrote:

> All I did was move the ISO's that I had previously mounted in the vbox 
> (the XP CD and Office 2007) to a different directory.
> Now I can't open my Virtualbox?

What does this mean that you "can't open" your "Virtualbox"? Moving 
registered ISO images somewhere (or making them inaccessible in some 
other way, e.g. deleting) will not prevent the VirtualBox application 
from functioning. It will only prevent a particular VM an ISO file is 
attached to from being started because it's hard to read information 
from the ISO file that is not available at the expected location (stored 
in the VM configuration data). The same relates to moving/deleting hard 
disk images outside VirtualBox, btw.

> Excuse me for saying, but that's just plain stupid.
> Can't they check for the existence of these files and simply ask if you 
> want to remove the reference to it since it no longer exists?

This is exactly what happens now. Not when you start a VM (you will get 
an error message in that case complaining that xxx.ISO is inaccessible) 
but when you start the VirtualBox application or when you open the 
Virtual Disk Manager -- inaccessible media will be marked with 
exclamation mark icons there with the reason of inaccessibility being 
shown in a tool-tip.

-- 
Dmitry A. Kuminov

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