CloneVDI Werkzeug FAQ und Diskussionen

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Re: CloneVDI Werkzeug FAQ und Diskussionen

Post by mpack »

Well, I don't see what you are doing wrong.

What you could do is use the hex editor to save the first 16K of each file to another file. Then zip up the four x 16K fragments and attach the zip here. I'll take a look and see why CloneVDI doesn't like them.
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Re: CloneVDI Werkzeug FAQ und Diskussionen

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Exporting a hexdump as *.txt is ok?

See file attached. :)
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I didn't ask for a hexdump. I need the actual first 16K of each binary. CloneVDI won't open a hexdump.
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Re: CloneVDI Werkzeug FAQ und Diskussionen

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oh, sorry. misunderstood that.

attached the files now. is that right?
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Well, apart from a misunderstanding about the term "K", yes, at first glance that looks fine. :) I'll report back later.

(K in computing == 1024 bytes. So 16K == 16384 bytes. Byte == 8 bits).
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CloneVDI successfully opens the files for me, i.e. it successfully follows the chain of links back to the base VDI. Of course it fails a later part because the files have been truncated.

What CloneVDI version are you using?
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Re: CloneVDI Werkzeug FAQ und Diskussionen

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v2.10 ...

Can you click on "proceed" or does this fail 'cause of the corrupted files?
If I click on it, it says "it's a difference image .... "
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"Proceed" is not available to me, because of course the files fail validation due to an incomplete header. A 50GB VDI has a 200K header, so I would need the first (say) 220K from each file in order to test it that far. You might be able to provide this as multiple attachments, zipped of course.
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Hope this time I understand 220K the right way! :D
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Yes thanks, you provided exactly the information I asked for, unfortunately I made a mistake in my request. It turns out that the block map is 200K, but the block map occurs 1024K into the file, and that really is too large to deal with here.

So, what I did instead was comment out that part of the validation check, and then CloneVDI was perfectly happy to open all four files, validation was "Ok" and the "Proceed" button is enabled.

Are you absolutely sure you are opening the correct file?, i.e. reading from the folder where you have all four VDI files together? You might like to copy all four files to another drive or another PC and try it again there, since provided the OS is not blocking access to these files you should have no problem opening them.
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Re: CloneVDI Werkzeug FAQ und Diskussionen

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Hey,

I want to open the latest snapshot: "{f2158dec-e9f0-4a21-84e9-00b078c1af76}.vdi"

I attach a screenshot of which file I want to open and the error message.
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Is that the same folder you showed me previously? The message means that the complete snapshot chain is not present, I don't know what else to tell you.

For example, I see that you are opening the VDI in the Snapshots subfolder, which typically does not contain the base VDI. Did you move it there?
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Yep, same folder as on my prev screenshot, all VDIs inside, also base one.
Snapshot chain should also be complete, as showed in another screenshot. And you tested it as well.

Don't know what else to do ...
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Re: CloneVDI Werkzeug FAQ und Diskussionen

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As you can see from the screenshot below, I am able to open your selected snapshot and get to the point where CloneVDI would start creating the clone, if only all the input files were not truncated in my case.
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Did you try running CloneVDI on another PC as I asked? It is possible that some kind of permissions issue is preventing one or more of your files from being accessible on your normal host.

The only other difference I see is that I'm running my current experimental version of CloneVDI (v2.11), whereas you are running the last release version (v2.10). I don't know of any difference in v2.11 that would help you, but you may want to give it a try anyway, so I've attached that too. In fact this version was created to help a past forum user who had corrupted his VDIs, this version deliberately weakens CloneVDI's error checking in order to force a clone to be created if at all possible. This build option was turned off for my testing of your files, but I've turned it on for you to try. Maybe this will help you too, maybe not.
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Re: CloneVDI Werkzeug FAQ und Diskussionen

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Sorry for my delayed answer.

So first, I do not have another computer where I can run CloneVDI.
Permission issues should be solved cause I am Administrator and these are the Administrator's files. :)

I will check tomorrow if it works with you hacked version and will give you some feedback! ;)
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