Workaround for cloning disks - only one problem left

[Matthias70]

Hi,
clonehd in Virtualbox 2.1 does not work! The machine does not start, when cloned with clonehd
So I cloned my vdi file with this code:

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"F:\VirtualBox\VBoxManage.exe" clonehd -format VMDK disk_1.vdi disk_2.vdi

The new machine with the cloned drive works perfect.

There is only on difference in the virtual media manager!
The format of the vdi file is vmdk although the fileextension is .vdi?

Does anyone know if this could be a problem?
And does anyone know how to convert the vdi file to format vdi without losing data?

Thanks
Matthias

[baf]

Try instead:
Copy oldfile newfile
VBoxManage internalcommands sethduuid <filepath>

And see how that works.

[Matthias70]

Thanks, it works
Matthias

[Kahuna]

Try instead:
Copy oldfile newfile
VBoxManage internalcommands sethduuid <filepath>

And see how that works.

I'm having similar problems with clonevdi - could you expand on your reply please 'baf' (nOOb speak please Bud).

Cheers

[Sasquatch]

Try instead:
Copy oldfile newfile
VBoxManage internalcommands sethduuid <filepath>

And see how that works.

I'm having similar problems with clonevdi - could you expand on your reply please 'baf' (nOOb speak please Bud).

Cheers

Copy the VDI you want to clone to a new location. Now you have that, open a command prompt. Change it's location so you're in the VB install folder (cd c:\program files\sun xvm virtualbox by default). Then run the VBoxManage command provided by baf. Like this:

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vboxmanage.exe internalcommands setvdiuuid c:\temp\clone.vdi

Where of course the last part is the full path of the VDI file you copied. After that, change it's name so you know it's the clone and register it in VB.

[Kahuna]

Thanks Sasquatch - I'll try that today.

Cheers

[Sasquatch]

The new release should fix the cloning issue.