My guest VM Windows 10 inaccesible... VirtualBoxWrap

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janpeter
Posts: 110
Joined: 27. Apr 2009, 11:51
Primary OS: Mac OS X other
VBox Version: PUEL
Guest OSses: Windows 10, Ubuntu 20.04

My guest VM Windows 10 inaccesible... VirtualBoxWrap

Post by janpeter »

Hi

I have used VirtualBox many years on my Mac to run Windows and usually works just fine.
Now to my surprise, after improperly looked out from my Mac without first closing down VM and Virtualbox,
I got problem next day. I get the text "Inaccessible". And the following text

Cannot register the DVD image '/Applications/VirtualBox.app/Contents/MacOS/VBoxGuestAdditions.iso' {e74da724-c285-4dbe-ad29-bdba88bd3960} because a CD/DVD image '/Applications/VirtualBox.app/Contents/MacOS/VBoxGuestAdditions.iso' with UUID {d3de5660-01f4-48c0-90c6-6905dbd2d3a7} already exists.

Result Code: NS_ERROR_INVALID_ARG (0x80070057)
Component: VirtualBoxWrap
Interface: IVirtualBox {d0a0163f-e254-4e5b-a1f2-011cf991c38d}

I see other people on the forum ask for similar problems, but this one has the text "VirtukalBoxWrap" which differ from other cases I saw.

The virtual disk is otherwise still there and "un-touched".

One idea I have is to make a new VM using the old virtual disk, but I am not sure it is the proper action.

Appreciate some help!

PS. I run macOS 11.3.1 and VBox 6.1.22 (recently updated and worked fine until now). All on a MacBook Pro (Intel)
Radchu24
Posts: 25
Joined: 10. May 2021, 19:37
Primary OS: MS Windows 10
VBox Version: PUEL
Guest OSses: Windows 3.1, 95, 98, NT, 2000, ME, XP, Vista, 7, 10 and Ubuntu

Re: My guest VM Windows 10 inaccesible... VirtualBoxWrap

Post by Radchu24 »

Go to the .vbox file, open it with pages, and remove
<DVDImages>
<Image uuid="{fd686a98-c1a6-42d9-82aa-67728b524d53}" location="VIRTUALBOXGUESTADDITIONS.ISO LOCATION"/>
</DVDImages>
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howardc64
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Re: My guest VM Windows 10 inaccesible... VirtualBoxWrap

Post by howardc64 »

I just moved the VM files to another macOS, installed vbox + extension pack and greeted with this error when trying to add my old VM.

Above solution to remove lines betwen <DVDImages> and </DVDImages? worked for me
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