As I was writing this, I may have answered my own question. I think what I have may actually work.
What I had before was two virtualbox processes running as different users. Although the permissions were set correctly I thought, the process still failed. When I create a new virtual machine as the original user, using the same VirtualBox process, it seems to work. Richard lundeen wrote: > Hello, > > I've been trying all day to get more than one instances of virtualbox > to run on the same immutable drive. > > First, I managed to get the drive to be immutable by cloning the disk > and registering the new one as immutable > > > VBoxManage clonevdi Windowsxp.vdi Windowsxp2.vdi > VBoxManage registerimage disk Windowsxp2.vdi -type immutable > > I did this because I had problems doing it the other way, as I posted > here http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?t=94&highlight= > > Now, when I look at the settings my and change the primary master, sure > enough, it says it is 'immutable'. > > However, when I try to start two virtual machines using this same > immutable vdi image, I get an error and it does not work. > > In the 1.4 release notes it says: > IDE: fixed problem that only one VM could open an immutable image > > This is the version I'm running. > > But when I try to open more than one it gives me the warning "One or > more of the registered virtual hard disks is not currently > accessible..." and when I try to start the vm it says > > "VM cannot start because the hard disk > '/home/user/.VirtualBox/VDI/Windowsxp2.vdi' is not > accessible (Acutal UUID > {62d885a4-1963-4aca-6990-913036ac751d} of the hard disk > image '/home/user/.VirtualBox/VDI/Windowsxp2.vdi' doesn't > match UUID {a818aeca-b06f-41b6-80bd-6743c35c79e} stored > in the registry)." > > I have a 64 bit Ubuntu Linux host (installation from apt-get) and a > Windowsxp guest. > > Can anyone help me? > > Thanks. > > > _______________________________________________ > vbox-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users _______________________________________________ vbox-users mailing list [email protected] http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users
