NS_ERROR_ABORT (0x80004004) - Error at line 1786 of file VBoxManageAppliance.cpp

[Francesco Galgani]

Hello everyone!

My O.S.:

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$ cat /etc/*-release
[...]
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Linux Mint 20.3 Una"
[...]
UBUNTU_CODENAME=focal

My issue:

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$ vboxmanage list vms
"Windows 98" {a145e24e-5c13-419b-839c-129fa6b314df}
[...]
$ vboxmanage export "Windows 98" -o win98.ova
VBoxManage: error: Code NS_ERROR_ABORT (0x80004004) - Operation aborted (extended info not available)
VBoxManage: error: Context: "ExportTo(pAppliance, Bstr(pszAbsFilePath).raw(), pVSD.asOutParam())" at line 1786 of file VBoxManageAppliance.cpp
$ vboxmanage --version
6.1.36r152435
$ dpkg -l | grep virtualbox | awk '{print $3}'
6.1.36-152435~Ubuntu~focal

[mpack]

All I can see is that the operation aborted, I can't see why. Obvious reasons would be hardware or permission errors on source or destination drives, or lack of space on dest drive.