Problems with cloning (version 2.1.0)

habibv · Post by **habibv** » 15. Jan 2009, 22:10

Hi,
I'm using VirtualBox 2.1.0 on RedHat 5.2 host.
I have problems with cloning Windows XP VM.
I cloned the XP virtual machine, which is working fine, using following command:

VBoxManage clonevdi /virtualbox-disks/windowsxp.vdi /virtualbox-disks/winxp.vdi
VirtualBox Command Line Management Interface Version 2.1.0
(C) 2005-2008 Sun Microsystems, Inc.
All rights reserved.

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Clone hard disk created in format 'VDI'. UUID: 4d646096-818d-41c3-8637-ae3f6603fb65

After that I created a new VM and tried to use the new image. However I got this error message from Windows:
Windows could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt:
<Windows root>\system 32\hal.dll.
Please re-install a copy of the above file.

I did not have any problem with cloning using previous version of VirtualBox. Is this a bug in version 2.1.0?

Thanks & Regards,
Habib

Post by **Sasquatch** » 15. Jan 2009, 22:22

Cloning with 2.1.0 is kinda broken. Use the normal file copy, then VBoxManage internalcommands setvdiuuid <filename>.

habibv · Post by **habibv** » 15. Jan 2009, 22:30

Thank you so much I'll try that and will let you know. This is not the only problem I'm facing with 2.1.0. So far the only good thing about 2.1.0 was networking enhancement !

Post by **Sasquatch** » 15. Jan 2009, 22:36

Yeah, 2.1.0 has a lot of issues. Most of them should be solved in the next release, which shouldn't take too long to be released.