Cannot import VM - 2 Differencing child disks
Posted: 23. Mar 2023, 15:23
Hi there,
Yesterday I was able to add this virtual machine to Virtual Box and run it successfully.
I was then making space on my drive for more VMs and deleted the .vdi file for this machine by accident. I thought it was on my VmWare Fusion client, but it was my VirtualBox.
I then downloaded this VM again and tried to import it into VirtualBox, but I am now getting this error as soon as I try to import it:
Failed to open virtual machine located in /Users/accountname/Downloads/kali-linux-2023.1-virtualbox-amd64/kali-linux-2023.1-virtualbox-amd64.vbox.
Hard disk '/Users/accountname/Downloads/kali-linux-2023.1-virtualbox-amd64/kali-linux-2023.1-virtualbox-amd64.vdi' with UUID {56bbd0a4-e5b5-4cf5-8904-91810199d72f} cannot be directly attached to the virtual machine 'kali-linux-2023.1-virtualbox-amd64' ('/Users/accountname/Downloads/kali-linux-2023.1-virtualbox-amd64/kali-linux-2023.1-virtualbox-amd64.vbox') because it has 2 differencing child hard disks.
Result Code:
NS_ERROR_FAILURE (0X80004005)
Component:
MachineWrap
Interface:
IMachine {300763af-5d6b-46e6-aa96-273eac15538a}
Callee:
IVirtualBox {7682d5eb-f00e-44f1-8ca2-99d08b1cd607}
I've tried reinstalling VirtualBox but same issue. Any ideas?
Host OS: macOS Monterey 12.6.4
VirtualBox Version 7.0.6 r155176 (Qt5.15.2)
Virtual OS I'm attempting to install: kali-linux-2023.1-virtualbox-amd64.vbx (from Kali website > Prebuilt Virtual Machines > 64 bit VirtualBox)
Yesterday I was able to add this virtual machine to Virtual Box and run it successfully.
I was then making space on my drive for more VMs and deleted the .vdi file for this machine by accident. I thought it was on my VmWare Fusion client, but it was my VirtualBox.
I then downloaded this VM again and tried to import it into VirtualBox, but I am now getting this error as soon as I try to import it:
Failed to open virtual machine located in /Users/accountname/Downloads/kali-linux-2023.1-virtualbox-amd64/kali-linux-2023.1-virtualbox-amd64.vbox.
Hard disk '/Users/accountname/Downloads/kali-linux-2023.1-virtualbox-amd64/kali-linux-2023.1-virtualbox-amd64.vdi' with UUID {56bbd0a4-e5b5-4cf5-8904-91810199d72f} cannot be directly attached to the virtual machine 'kali-linux-2023.1-virtualbox-amd64' ('/Users/accountname/Downloads/kali-linux-2023.1-virtualbox-amd64/kali-linux-2023.1-virtualbox-amd64.vbox') because it has 2 differencing child hard disks.
Result Code:
NS_ERROR_FAILURE (0X80004005)
Component:
MachineWrap
Interface:
IMachine {300763af-5d6b-46e6-aa96-273eac15538a}
Callee:
IVirtualBox {7682d5eb-f00e-44f1-8ca2-99d08b1cd607}
I've tried reinstalling VirtualBox but same issue. Any ideas?
Host OS: macOS Monterey 12.6.4
VirtualBox Version 7.0.6 r155176 (Qt5.15.2)
Virtual OS I'm attempting to install: kali-linux-2023.1-virtualbox-amd64.vbx (from Kali website > Prebuilt Virtual Machines > 64 bit VirtualBox)