Pablo Sanchez ha scritto: > Howdy, > > I must be doing something obviously wrong because I've cloned HD's in > the past but now, it's not working for me. I've cracked open the User > Manual and still, I'm getting an error. > > I'm in my `VDI' directory and I'm issuing the `VBoxManage clonehd' > command and it's failing. > > Any thoughts? I've tried without any switches to `VBoxManage' as > well. > > Any direction would be much appreciated. > > Cheers, > -pablo > > Contents of my Directory > ======================== > pa...@oreo-1034-[vdi]: ls -lah > total 49G > drwxr-xr-x 2 pablo users 73 2009-07-28 09:43 ./ > drwxr-xr-x 4 pablo users 85 2009-09-10 06:36 ../ > lrwxrwxrwx 1 pablo users 50 2009-07-28 09:43 data4ss-db-big.vdi -> > /usr2/home/pablo/virtualbox/vdi/data4ss-db-big.vdi > -rw-r--r-- 1 pablo users 21G 2009-09-11 08:59 data4ss-win2003.vdi > -rw-r--r-- 1 pablo users 29G 2009-09-11 08:57 winxp.vdi > pa...@oreo-1035-[vdi]: > > VBoxManage Error > ================ > pa...@oreo-1033-[vdi]: VBoxManage clonehd data4ss-win2003.vdi cmu-win2003.vdi > --format VDI --variant Standard --type normal --remember > VirtualBox Command Line Management Interface Version 3.0.6 > (C) 2005-2009 Sun Microsystems, Inc. > All rights reserved. > > ERROR: Cannot register the hard disk > '/home/pablo/.VirtualBox/VDI/data4ss-win2003.vdi' with UUID > {29de3bce-085c-45f7-4a89-2d1b16f9e61d} because a hard disk > '/home/pablo/.VirtualBox/VDI/data4ss-win2003.vdi' with UUID > {29de3bce-085c-45f7-4a89-2d1b16f9e61d} already exists in the media registry > ('/home/pablo/.VirtualBox/VirtualBox.xml') > it seems that already you have the uuid
29de3bce-085c-45f7-4a89-2d1b16f9e61d in xml file ;) You can use the option "- exinting" if you are sure not to overwrite an existing file, in this example: $ VBoxManage clonehd windows_xp1.vdi --existing windows_xp2.vdi is also important use the absolute path of VDI disk > Details: code NS_ERROR_INVALID_ARG (0x80070057), component VirtualBox, > interface IVirtualBox, callee nsISupports > Context: "OpenHardDisk(Bstr(szFilenameAbs), AccessMode_ReadWrite, false, > Bstr(""), false, Bstr(""), srcDisk.asOutParam())" at line 624 of file > VBoxManageDisk.cpp > Segmentation fault > pa...@oreo-1034-[vdi]: > > Best regards, Antonio ------------------------------------------------ http://adoldo.wordpress.com _______________________________________________ vbox-users mailing list vbox-users@virtualbox.org http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users