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Hi , Thanks a lot ChipMcK and mpack. I tried attaching all the files in the chain and boot the last incremental but no luck with it. My requirement is to boot the incremental right away without the the need for merging. It works good for VHD but fails to work on VMDK. Any help to make it boot. / tha...

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I tried booting Incremental VMDK images but it failed booting. And i found no work-around to do this process. So i thought i could write a plugin that would support booting the Incremental VMDK files in VBOX. Where could i start ? Any help on this.

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Thanks for the reply. Yes as i mentioned eariler i was able to boot from compressed full VMDK but i am not boot the compressed incremental VMDK without coversion process.
Is there a way for it? Or somechanges in the code will make it happen ? Any help on this

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Thanks for the reply. How can i boot compressed VMDK in virtual Box. Is there anywork around for it. Does it require Code change to make it boot. Please help on this.

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Hi MPack, As i mentioned in the previous thread, the vmdk files i send you will not boot as it is just a DATA volume. Sending a boot volume cant be done considering its size so i send a Stream optimized vmdk with data volume. And can you please tell me how did you verify that incrX.vmdk are not chil...

Hi, Thanks a lot. This child vmdk was created by me using VDDK api. And it has operating system inside it. Windows -7 X64 bit is the OS. I am attaching a sample base and child disk for your reference. This is not OS volume it is a small data volume. i am able to access the files in full.vmdk whereas...

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Thanks for the info.

Error message i get is "Fatal error : no bootable medium found! system halted". This happen when i try booting a incremental VMDK file. But the base/full VMDK boots successfully.


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HI, Thanks a lot michaln and mpack. Actually i tried booting Stream_optimized [compressed] parent [full] vmdk file in Virtual box and it booted successfully. Then i tried attaching the first child [ differencing/incremental] but it failed booting with Fatal error message. Is it expected behaviour ? ...

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Will i be able to boot stream optimized VMDK child disk in Virtual Box. I was able to boot stream optimized base image vmdk but but attaching the child failed to boot. Any help on this.

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Hi, I created a 2 VMDK files using VDDK 5.0. The first file was of used 500 MB and other one was higher size of 300 GB. When i try to attach these two files the 500 MB file attached but the higher size disk failed to attach with the below error message, [Failed to open the hard disk D:\Viki\Disk0_fu...

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The SDK Doc is not same as the version 4.1.8 . struck with it for a long time
Any help on this? please

Hi, i am trying to create a VM using api in the sdk CoInitialize(NULL); IMachine *machine = NULL; IVirtualBox *virtualBox = NULL; BSTR guid = NULL; HRESULT hr; /* Instantiate the VirtualBox root object. */ hr = CoCreateInstance(CLSID_VirtualBox, /* the VirtualBox base object */ NULL, /* no aggregati...

Hi , I am using 4.1.8 VB and the SDK i want to clone a machine for backup. IMachine *targetMachine; IMachine *machine; ISession *session = NULL; IConsole *console = NULL; IProgress *progress = NULL; HRESULT hr; SAFEARRAY *machinesArray = NULL; hr = IvirtualBox->get_Machines(&machinesArray); // C...