I ran out of space in the partition in which I run Virtualbox and Ubuntu. Eventually Virtualbox tried to write to the settings file at some point, but it failed to do so and left an empty file. The specific file that is emptied is /home/phantom/.VirtualBox/Machines/Windows 2000/Windows 2000.xml
Here is the full error Virtualbox presents to me when I highlight the broken VM:
Is there any way to recover this virtual machine?The selected virtual machine is inaccessible. Please inspect the error message shown below and press the refresh button if you want to repeat the accessibility check:Code: Select all
Start tag expected, '<' not found. Location: '/home/phantom/.VirtualBox/Machines/Windows 2000/Windows 2000.xml', line 1 (0), column 1. /home/vbox/vbox-3.1.2/src/VBox/Main/MachineImpl.cpp[5821] (nsresult Machine::loadSettings(bool)). Result Code: NS_ERROR_FAILURE (0x80004005) Component: VirtualBox Interface: IVirtualBox {2158464a-f706-414b-a8c4-fb589dfc6b62}