Hi all -
I am trying to set up a guest 32bit WinXP vm using virtualbox, on my 64bit Vista Home laptop. Everything seemed to be going well - I set up the VM, installed XP and was running it last night without issues. Then I rebooted my machine and logged in this morning, and now when I try to start the winXp guest system, I get the following error:
Failed to start the virtual machine xp
failed to open image 'C:\Program Files\Sun\XVM VirtualBox\images\xp32.vdi' for writing due to wrong permissions (VERR_VD_IMAGE_READ_ONLY).
Failed to attach driver below us! Image is read-only.
(VERR_VD_IMAGE_READ_ONLY).
PIIX3 cannot attach drive to the Primary Master
(VERR_VD_IMAGE_READ_ONLY).
Unknown error createing VM (VERR_VD_IMAGE_READ_ONLY).
Details:
Result code: E_FAIL (0x80004005)
Component: console
Interface: Iconsole (huge string of numbers/letters)
I am running Virtualbox 2.2.2 and this happened once last night, but I had de-installed and reinstalled virtualbox, so figured it was something I had done - so I rebuilt the virtual machine. This time, I didn't do anything except shut down the machine and restart it a few times.
I did check the obvious - the .vdi file is *not* read only. I've tried starting up virtual box as myself and as administrator, but starting as administrator gives a bunch of other errors - and I installed it as myself.
I tried googling for this error message but only get changesets - nothing to indicate what I should be doing to fix it
any help would be greatly appreciated!