Thank you. Copying the base and differencing disk VDI files into a new directory and cloning the latter did, indeed, do the trick.
I'm going to be much more cautious in the future.
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- 20. Feb 2016, 16:55
- Forum: Using VirtualBox
- Topic: Base hard disk attached to wrong differencing disk UUID
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- 20. Feb 2016, 06:34
- Forum: Using VirtualBox
- Topic: Base hard disk attached to wrong differencing disk UUID
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Base hard disk attached to wrong differencing disk UUID
I cloned a disk with CloneVDI to increase the size, failed to tell it to use the same UUID, renamed the old base VDI file and dropped the large clone in its place. I tried to start it up and VirtualBox complained of a UUID mis-match, so instead I removed the the original and added the new one and tr...