[Resolved] lost snapshots on new computer

Jeffer · Post by **Jeffer** » 17. Aug 2019, 16:38

Hi all,
my 1st post here and I hope it's placed well.
I have read some topics and searched the forum (and the internet, too), but all solutions I find are not working so far or several years old...

My problem:
My old computer crashed a while ago and I bought a new one. I installed the lastes VirtualBox and tried to import my old virtual systems (3 at all). Two worked w/o any problems, but one is not willing to work...
When I try to add this machine (winXP, 32bit) VM is complaining about a wrong UUID for the vboxguestadditions cd. I thought I simply set up a new machine and added the vmdk's and the machine started. Unfortunately I made snapshots in the past and the current state in the original vmdk's is from 2014.
I tried several things to combine the snapshots into the vmdk's, but it seems to be impossible. I know which snapshot is for which vmdk.

Is there a tool (preferable running on win10 pro, 64bit), where I can simmply say: Take "Test2.vmdk" and combine it with "{eea....}.vmdk" and with "{e4a...}.vmdk" ?

There are 3 disks with 2 snaphot vmdk's each... All are vmdk format.

Thanks a lot in advance and sorry for my poor english

Cheers Christian

Post by **socratis** » 18. Aug 2019, 04:37

Jeffer wrote:Is there a tool (preferable running on win10 pro, 64bit), where I can simmply say: Take "Test2.vmdk" and combine it with "{eea....}.vmdk" and with "{e4a...}.vmdk" ?

First of all, you don't just combine VMDKs randomly, there's a really tight relationship between them, see Snapshot Basics.

Second, you're in luck, because our fellow user and VDI guru mpack, has written a tool just for that: CloneVDI. It's a Win app, make sure that you read the help.

But there's one thing that I don't understand. If you copied the entire VM folder, and you simply registered the .vbox file, there should be no need for that. Furthermore, I'm worried about this:

Jeffer wrote:VM is complaining about a wrong UUID for the vboxguestadditions cd

This I'm afraid has nothing to do with the VMDKs and the snapshots, and I'm afraid that you might be confused by the error and driving towards the wrong path.

I would like to see the "recipe" of the VM, the ".vbox" file. Right-click on the VM in the VirtualBox Manager, select "Show in Explorer". ZIP the selected ".vbox" file and attach it to your response.

Jeffer · Post by **Jeffer** » 18. Aug 2019, 09:11

Hi socratis,
thanks a lot for your reply. I will take a look at CloneVDI.
Fortunatley I made a screenshot a while ago before my old computer crashed showing the structure of the snapshots.
There I can see f.e. :

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Test2.vmdk
  {eee0c4ec-...}.vmdk
    {e4a3aba2-...}.vmdk
Test2-0.vmdk
  {8387d710-...}.vmdk
    {4cec29f8-...}.vmdk
etc.

Attached my .vbox file. The problem with the UUID just made it impossible to simply add the machine in the virtualbox manager. I always end up in an error message complaining about that UUID.

Post by **socratis** » 18. Aug 2019, 09:29

That's a corrupt file with lots of non-ASCII characters. You cannot use that file. Trying to add it results in:

Couldn't find end of Start Tag VirtualBox line 8.
Location: '/Users/Shared/Downloads/Entwicklung.vbox', line 8 (8), column 64.
/Users/vbox/tinderbox/mac-rel/src/VBox/Main/src-server/MachineImpl.cpp[497] (nsresult Machine::initFromSettings(VirtualBox *, const com::Utf8Str &, const com::Guid *)).

Jeffer wrote:I always end up in an error message complaining about that UUID.

Please be specific and exact next time, I want to see the complete error message, not just the fact. Don't "trim" the information that you give, we can't make heads or tails.

Jeffer · Post by **Jeffer** » 18. Aug 2019, 09:44

Sorry for being not specific.

I have 3 ".vbox" files in that folder and I may copied the wrong one...
There is also a ".vmx" file and a ".vbox-prev" file.
This time I attach a zip with all 5 files.

You are right, when trying to import "Entwicklung.vbox", I get the error you mentioned.

When I try to import "Entwicklung-1.15-windows.vbox", I get the following error:

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Konnte die virtuelle Maschine in I:/VirtualBox VMs/Entwicklung/Entwicklung-1.15-windows.vbox nicht öffnen.

Cannot register the DVD image 'C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox\VBoxGuestAdditions.iso' {aa925787-5c43-4f81-bbe9-646eaac5560b} because a CD/DVD image 'C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox\VBoxGuestAdditions.iso' with UUID {ea39ed10-55b5-4121-85d3-80c75ffb822d} already exists.

Fehlercode:E_INVALIDARG (0x80070057)
Komponente:VirtualBoxWrap
Interface:IVirtualBox {d0a0163f-e254-4e5b-a1f2-011cf991c38d}

Trying to import "Entwicklung-1.14-windows.vbox" ends up in another error:

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Konnte die virtuelle Maschine in I:/VirtualBox VMs/Entwicklung/Entwicklung-1.14-windows.vbox nicht öffnen.

Callee RC:E_INVALIDARG (0x80070057)

Jeffer · Post by **Jeffer** » 18. Aug 2019, 09:57

Unfortunatley CloneVDI does not work for me. Seems to be a great tool and I will keep it, but it does not support snapshots or differencing drives of ".vmdk" format, which I have.

In my case selecting a snapshot ends up in an error message "Source is a difference image. Sorry, this tool cannot clone these (for now)".

But I think I will convert the images of my other (working) VMs to the VDI format soon.

Post by **mpack** » 18. Aug 2019, 10:59

Jeffer wrote:[CloneVDI] does not support snapshots or differencing drives of ".vmdk" format, which I have.

It sure does, if all file fragments are present (including the base), and if they were created by VirtualBox. I mention the last part because you mentioned a VMX file earlier, which is a VMWare control file. Meaning this was a VMWare VM.

Again an explicit error message would help. If it said "Differencing images are not supported" (or words to that effect) then it means that not all fragments were present in the folder.

p.s. The age of a solution can be because that solution always works, and there's no need to revise it.

Jeffer · Post by **Jeffer** » 18. Aug 2019, 11:30

Thanks for your reply, mpack.

Sorry, but when I was reading the release notes of your app there were some statements that some features are maainly or only available for VDI files and when I tried to work on my VMDK file that message box appeared ("Source is a difference image. Sorry, this tool cannot clone these (for now)").

In the past years I was just a (very satisfied) user of virtualbox and never cared about what was going on under the hood... Now I encountered a problem for the first time and I am a bit helpless...

I don't want to create big work for someone, as the (lost) data is not important enough. It is just private hobby stuff which is not vital. Mainly it is CAD work on my backyard observatory (astronomy is my hobby) from a redesign of the last 2 years, which is not completely finished. But I have drawings of the status so far and can re-buid everything...

I just thought I ask if there is a tool that can help (out of the box) to recover the data of the last years.

Therefore, thanks for your help and for your nice tool. I currently use CloneDVI to convert my VMDK files to the VDI format and then I will set up a fresh machine with the VDI files.

P.S. Yes, VMware was the start of my virtualization experience years ago. And by some stupid decisison I created just for this one VM snapshots. The other VMs worked fine from the beginning with the new installation. I will never use snapshots again...

Post by **socratis** » 19. Aug 2019, 05:32

Save the contents below as "Entwicklung.vbox", it should fix the complain about the duplicate DVD UUID:

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<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!--
** DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE.
** If you make changes to this file while any VirtualBox related application
** is running, your changes will be overwritten later, without taking effect.
** Use VBoxManage or the VirtualBox Manager GUI to make changes.
-->
<VirtualBox xmlns="http://www.virtualbox.org/" version="1.17-windows">
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    <Description>Entwicklung Win XP</Description>
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          <HardDisk uuid="{8387d710-98b6-49b2-8947-0b54675dd209}" location="Snapshots/{8387d710-98b6-49b2-8947-0b54675dd209}.vmdk" format="VMDK">
            <HardDisk uuid="{4cec29f8-1be0-4f42-9cd3-50b6916bad8f}" location="Snapshots/{4cec29f8-1be0-4f42-9cd3-50b6916bad8f}.vmdk" format="VMDK"/>
          </HardDisk>
        </HardDisk>
        <HardDisk uuid="{1ffbf4a1-5024-4ef0-954d-3b4d12c0b391}" location="Test2-1.vmdk" format="VMDK" type="Normal">
          <HardDisk uuid="{57cab723-d0ec-46d1-9b7c-455c996500a0}" location="Snapshots/{57cab723-d0ec-46d1-9b7c-455c996500a0}.vmdk" format="VMDK">
            <HardDisk uuid="{06d0fd68-00f0-42e4-8fe5-dc792bd43d85}" location="Snapshots/{06d0fd68-00f0-42e4-8fe5-dc792bd43d85}.vmdk" format="VMDK"/>
          </HardDisk>
        </HardDisk>
        <HardDisk uuid="{0924f230-c47a-43be-a7fb-878de4f1f8d6}" location="Test2.vmdk" format="VMDK" type="Normal">
          <HardDisk uuid="{eea0c4ec-2b21-447e-8eb2-d40a8de0de3a}" location="Snapshots/{eea0c4ec-2b21-447e-8eb2-d40a8de0de3a}.vmdk" format="VMDK">
            <HardDisk uuid="{e4a3aba2-b13f-44a7-b3b5-6971c082569f}" location="Snapshots/{e4a3aba2-b13f-44a7-b3b5-6971c082569f}.vmdk" format="VMDK"/>
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        </HardDisk>
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      <ExtraDataItem name="GUI/Fullscreen" value="true"/>
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      <ExtraDataItem name="GUI/LastGuestSizeHint" value="1920,976"/>
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    </Hardware>
    <StorageControllers>
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        </AttachedDevice>
        <AttachedDevice type="HardDisk" hotpluggable="false" port="0" device="1">
          <Image uuid="{06d0fd68-00f0-42e4-8fe5-dc792bd43d85}"/>
        </AttachedDevice>
        <AttachedDevice passthrough="false" type="DVD" hotpluggable="false" port="1" device="0"/>
        <AttachedDevice type="HardDisk" hotpluggable="false" port="1" device="1">
          <Image uuid="{e4a3aba2-b13f-44a7-b3b5-6971c082569f}"/>
        </AttachedDevice>
      </StorageController>
    </StorageControllers>
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</VirtualBox>

And please get into the habit of removing your Guest Additions ISO once you're done with the installation.

Jeffer · Post by **Jeffer** » 19. Aug 2019, 21:44

socratis,

just a big "Thanks"!!!
The same also to mpack for his great tool!

ok, short story:
Your ".vbox" content made it possible to add that VM to the VM manager, but it was not possible to start the VM. Error message is not important anymore but the disk manager showed exclamation marks on two of the 3 drive images. But the drive image of my data drive was fine. Now I tried again CloneVDI on just this drive and CloneVDI converted the drive including the snapshots.
Then I created a new VM with the 3 drives (2 w/o the snapshots, 1 with the snapshots) and started it. My data is there! I might have lost some windows updates or some tools I have installed in the last year, but who cares as long as my work is there again...

2 lessons for me for the future:
1. never use snapshots again when not absolutely necessary
2. unmont guestadditions when not needed

Again, my big thanks to both of you!

Kind regards
Christian

Post by **socratis** » 19. Aug 2019, 22:25

Glad you got it going. Marking as [Resolved].

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