Yeah, wish I knew about the clone option -- I would have certainly tried it
:-)
On 5/10/07, Matt Cheddar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Thu, 10 May 2007 16:58:11 -0400
"Clayton Dukes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> That's exactly what happened to me, except when I tried editing the .xml
and
> setting it to "false/" it didn't fix the problem.
> I ended up going back to vmware, sadly :-(
Sorry to hear that. Maybe cloning the VM might have helped. The first time
i had this problem occurred after an upgrade of VirtualBox. The guest
additions were mounted to a VM and i uninstalled the previous version of
VirtualBox and installed the new version. I think the guest additions were
installed to a new folder and i was getting the "Could not find a registered
CD/DVD image with UUID ..." message. Nothing would let me unmount the (now
no longer installed) guest additions from the previous version and i could
not start the VM. I don't remember the exact details on that occassion but
somehow cloning the VM fixed it (maybe i did some other stuff too!). Anyway,
as a last ditch attempt i'm sure it is worth a try.
Kind regards,
Matt
>
>
> On 5/10/07, Matt Cheddar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > On Mon, 07 May 2007 14:23:29 +0200
> > "Dmitry A. Kuminov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > > 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.
> >
> > I've had this problem before and it has just happened again (using
Ubuntu
> > Feisty). The problem came about after i deleted an .iso from my hard
drive
> > that i had finished with, but i had forgotten it was still mounted to
a VM.
> > So in VirtualBox i removed the .iso in the CD/DVD section, assuming
this
> > would unmount it from any VMs still using it, but the VM is still
marked as
> > inaccessible with the "Could not find a registered CD/DVD image with
UUID
> > ..." message. Starting the VM with VBoxSDL gives the less helpful
error:
> >
> > Could not open VirtualBox session! Error info:
> > The object functonality is limited
> > (component Machine).
> >
> > I also tried modifyvm with -dvd none on the VM but that gives:
> >
> > [!] FAILED calling virtualBox->OpenSession(session, uuid) at line
3011!
> > [!] Primary RC = 0x8000FFFF
> > [!] Full error info present: true , basic error info present: true
> > [!] Result Code = 0x8000FFFF
> > [!] Text = The object functonality is limited
> > [!] Component = Machine, Interface: IMachine,
> > {fd443ec1-0009-4f5b-9282-d72760a66916}
> > [!] Callee = IVirtualBox, {e1d95593-f579-4f47-b489-0b67181014e1}
> >
> > Another thing i tried was adding the .iso again in VirtualBox, but the
> > UUID does not match up with the one that VirtualBox is saying is not
> > registered. I do not know if the UUID is a function of its path but
that is
> > the only thing that differs between it being mounted now and it being
> > mounted earlier (before deleting it from the hard drive i backed it up
and
> > MD5ed it so i know this is an exact copy of the previously working
.iso).
> > Rather forgetfully i cannot remember in which folder the .iso was
previously
> > located so copying it back to the same folder is not feasible,
assuming that
> > would affect the UUID in any case.
> >
> > When this same problem happened before i used clonevdi to clone it
which
> > worked fine but unfortunately this is a large VM and i do not quite
have
> > enough free space left to try that on this occasion.
> >
> > So finally i edited the VM's .xml file and changed the DVD part
(removing
> > the UUID of the mounted .iso) to:
> >
> > <DVDDrive passthrough="false"/>
> >
> > And it worked! So this leaves me with lots of questions (sorry!):
> >
> > Why didn't removing the .iso from within VirtualBox automatically
unmount
> > it from all VMs?
> > Why couldn't i start the VM even when the .iso was not found (but with
it
> > unmounted of course)?
> > Why didn't modifyvm work as expected?
> > Why did the VBoxSDL error not match the VirtualBox error?
> > Why did the UUID appear different when i mounted the same .iso?
> >
> > Sorry for all the questions but i hope this at least explains the
problem
> > i faced and possibly a workaround solution for anyone else in the same
boat
> > :-)
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Matt
> >
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>
>
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