XP guest inaccessible after upgrade to 2.1.2

edszr · Post by **edszr** » 5. Feb 2009, 20:16

Hi,

I upgraded from 1.66 to 2.1.2. I'm running on fedora 8. and when I now launch vbox, I get the following messages regarding my win XP Pro guest::

Could not load the settings file '/mnt/xpdisk/home/erush/.VirtualBox/Machines/WinXPPro/WinXPPro.xml'.
Element '{http://www.innotek.de/VirtualBox-settings}HostInterface': The attribute 'name' is required but missing.
Element '{http://www.innotek.de/VirtualBox-settings}HostInterface': The attribute 'name' is required but missing.

Result Code:
VBOX_E_XML_ERROR (0x80BB000A)
Component:
VirtualBox
Interface:
IVirtualBox {339abca2-f47a-4302-87f5-7bc324e6bbde}

The .xml file is there, but any ideas why I'm getting this?

thanks,
Ed

Post by **frank** » 5. Feb 2009, 22:25

I assume this is a bug in the code which handles upgrades from older .xml versions to newer. The easy way is to make sure that no VBoxSVC daemon is running (check with ps) and then edit the .xml file manually. Remove the entries containing the host interface description.

edszr · Post by **edszr** » 6. Feb 2009, 00:13

That seems to have done the trick, thanks so much!

reggler · Post by **reggler** » 6. Feb 2009, 05:09

Hey,

I got the same problem but I'm not really sure which lines to delete...what kind of host info am I looking for?

Thank you!
Ron

Post by **Sasquatch** » 7. Feb 2009, 20:28

reggler wrote:Hey,

I got the same problem but I'm not really sure which lines to delete...what kind of host info am I looking for?

Thank you!
Ron

It's about the NIC settings. Search for Interface or similar.

reggler · Post by **reggler** » 7. Feb 2009, 23:38

Sasquatch wrote:
reggler wrote:Hey,

I got the same problem but I'm not really sure which lines to delete...what kind of host info am I looking for?

Thank you!
Ron
It's about the NIC settings. Search for Interface or similar.

Yup Dude, I just deleted everything in between the <Network></Network> brackets and that made it come back up

Great thanks!