Need help to recover VM

[kikokrajco]

Hello, when i open VM it always says

Start tag expected, '<' not found.
Location: 'K:\VMs\11.vbox-prev\11.vbox', line 1 (0), column 1.
F:\tinderbox\win-6.0\src\VBox\Main\src-server\MachineImpl.cpp[497] (long __cdecl Machine::initFromSettings(class VirtualBox *,const class com::Utf8Str &,const class com::Guid *)).

Result Code: E_FAIL (0x80004005)
Component: MachineWrap
Interface: IMachine {5047460a-265d-4538-b23e-ddba5fb84976}
Callee: IVirtualBox {d0a0163f-e254-4e5b-a1f2-011cf991c38d}

I found already some tips here on forums but i did not worked at all, could you please help me ? and also i would need recover the exactly vm not create new with vdi file.
Many thanks for help

[scottgus1]

Look in the folder 'K:\VMs\11.vbox-prev'. There should be a "11.vbox" and an "11.vbox-prev" .

Rename "11.vbox" to "11.vbox.old".
Make a copy of "11.vbox-prev"
Rename the copy to "11.vbox"

Try starting the guest. If you have trouble, zip and post both "11.vbox" and "11.vbox-prev" in one zip folder, then post the zip using the forum's Upload Attachment tab.

FWIW based on the folder name it sounds like this has happened before...

[socratis]

Location: 'K:\VMs\11.vbox-prev\11.vbox'

Do you have a VM that's called "11.vbox-prev"? If not, something's not right with your whole setup.

[fth0]

a "11.vbox" and an "11.vbox.prev"

At least under VirtualBox 5.2.34, the 2nd filename would be "11.vbox-prev". If this holds true for the 6.x.y versions of VirtualBox, you can correct your post, and socratis can remove this post of mine.

[socratis]

If this holds true for the 6.x.y versions of VirtualBox

It holds true since I can remember VirtualBox...

you can correct your post, and socratis can remove this post of mine.

I corrected the post from 'scottgus1' and yours can stay as is, don't want to mess up the context/flow...