renamed hard drive
renamed hard drive
I renamed the hard drive my virtual machines are on. After putting in new path to machines it still goes back to old location. What I'm I missing. Thanks
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Re: renamed hard drive
Since you didn't really tell us exactly what you did, we can hardly tell you what you missed.
Bill
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Re: renamed hard drive
Or what OS it was done on. E.g. local hard drives are not typically renameable on Windows hosts, at least not in a sense that affects file paths.BillG wrote:Since you didn't really tell us exactly what you did...
If the OP means that he renamed the "VirtualBox VMs" or VM folder to something, say without a space, then that would make more sense - on Windows hosts. But we'd still need the details.
Re: renamed hard drive
The UUID was used as the hard drive name by default. I changed it to New-1TB. Started VB and all installed VM had no idea where to find images. Had I put new location to where files were. All working good.
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Re: renamed hard drive
No, it was not.hambone wrote:The UUID was used as the hard drive name by default.
VirtualBox uses the VM name as the default name of a hard drive file. The UUID name is only used for snapshots and other fragments of disks. If you renamed a fragment of a drive then you probably killed the VM, unless you can rename it back to exactly what it was.