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- 19. May 2014, 04:33
- Forum: VirtualBox on Linux Hosts
- Topic: VirtualBox completely messed up for user, works for root
- Replies: 4
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[SOLVED] Re: VirtualBox completely messed up for user
Hi, apparently the reason was that one of my VMs had a disk attached that referred to a non-existing image file. Once I manually edited this machine's XML configuration and removed the reference to that disk, I was able to perfectly restore my whole VirtualBox setup. It's very unfortunate that the r...
- 19. May 2014, 04:19
- Forum: VirtualBox on Linux Hosts
- Topic: VirtualBox completely messed up for user, works for root
- Replies: 4
- Views: 9877
Re: VirtualBox completely messed up for user, works for root
Hello again, so, if I remove ~/.VirtualBox and ~/.config/VirtualBox, my user can actually create a new machine and install an OS there. However, when I add one of my existing machines via the vbox file (which works fine!) and want to start it, I get again "There is no virtual machine with the i...
- 19. May 2014, 04:10
- Forum: VirtualBox on Linux Hosts
- Topic: VirtualBox completely messed up for user, works for root
- Replies: 4
- Views: 9877
Re: VirtualBox completely messed up for user, works for root
Hello,
thanks for your answer!
Thanks
Tobias
thanks for your answer!
This change should not persist across reboots, though, should it? Echoing VBOX_USER_HOME shows it is empty, actually.Perryg wrote:By running as admin you have changed the "VBOX_USER_HOME" environment. See Chapter 10.1.2 in your VirtualBox users manual.
Thanks
Tobias
- 15. May 2014, 06:07
- Forum: VirtualBox on Linux Hosts
- Topic: VirtualBox completely messed up for user, works for root
- Replies: 4
- Views: 9877
VirtualBox completely messed up for user, works for root
Hi, I was happily working with VirtualBox yesterday, creating, running, copying VMs etc., when it suddenly stopped working without apparent cause (description below) and I am unable to get it to work again. Environment: Fedora Linux 20 Kernel 3.14.3-200.fc20.x86_64 VirtualBox 4.3.10r93012 (installed...