Hello, On Fri, 11 May 2007 14:47:07 +0200 "Dmitry A. Kuminov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Matt Cheddar wrote: > > > 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. > > I've got a suspicion that after upgrading to a new version of VirtualBox > you let it create a new VirtualBox.xml file but then tried to simply > "import" your VM definition from the old installation to the new one. > Somehow, you managed to import the .xml file itself, but it was still > referring to an .iso from the old installation which was absent (not > registered) in the new VirtualBox.xml. > I used the Ubuntu packages from the VirtualBox site so any importing was done by that. I'm a little confused by what should happen. If a VM has the guest additions mounted and i uninstall VirtualBox, should the uninstall update the .xml and unmount the guest additions? Or does it get updated when the new version is installed? Or should it get wiped clean or something else? Thanks, Matt _______________________________________________ vbox-users mailing list [email protected] http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users
