Cannot add existing hard disk?

[saschaho]

I use a Mac and need the Internet Explorer for Website Development/Testing. So I downloaded the VPC Images for IE6, 7 and 8 from http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/deta ... laylang=en. Extracted the files and added the first vhd Image to VirtualBox. I was really happy when I saw that everything seems to work fine, but when I tried to add the second image to VirtualBox I got the error seen on the image below. The same with the third image. What's wrong? Is there an easy way of converting the vhd images to vdi?

Thanks in advance!

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[Perryg]

Here is a little reading for you Change the UUID You will need to do this on the other VM's

[saschaho]

Thanks for your fast answer.

I executed the command and got the reply that the image uuid was renamed. but when adding the image in virtualbox, it shows up the error again with the old uuid, so maybe it does not work with vhd images?!

But I found the converthd command which is supposed to convert images between different formats. Also vhd and vdi,but i get the following error:

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Mac:HardDisks xxx$ VBoxManage internalcommands converthd -srcformat VHD -dstformat VDI XP_SP3_with_IE6.vhd XP_SP3_with_IE6.vdi
VirtualBox Command Line Management Interface Version 2.2.2
(C) 2005-2009 Sun Microsystems, Inc.
All rights reserved.

Converting image "XP_SP3_with_IE6.vhd" with size 17179869184 bytes (16384MB)...
Error while copying the image: VERR_INVALID_PARAMETER
Mac:HardDisks xxx$ 

Have I made a mistake?

[Sasquatch]

Upgrade to 2.2.4, that has the sethduuid for VHD files fixed.

[saschaho]

Thank you very much for the information. "sethduuid" worked this time. GREAT!
Now my website are going to be IE friendly

[Sasquatch]

Thank you very much for the information. "sethduuid" worked this time. GREAT!
Now my website are going to be IE friendly

Ew, why make them work with that dirty browser? IE7 and especially IE8 can work with the standards just fine. IE6 is too old. But that's your choice .

[saschaho]

Yeah, I don't like the IE too. I am a satisfied mac user and use Safari. But that's beyond my power, which browser the visitor is using and my clients expect their websites to "work"