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

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