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by tgpfeiffer
19. May 2014, 04:33
Forum: VirtualBox on Linux Hosts
Topic: VirtualBox completely messed up for user, works for root
Replies: 4
Views: 9877

[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...
by tgpfeiffer
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...
by tgpfeiffer
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!
Perryg wrote:By running as admin you have changed the "VBOX_USER_HOME" environment. See Chapter 10.1.2 in your VirtualBox users manual.
This change should not persist across reboots, though, should it? Echoing VBOX_USER_HOME shows it is empty, actually.

Thanks
Tobias
by tgpfeiffer
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...