Cloning a hd with VBoxManage

[smt3mm]

Guys

I'm having trouble cloning an image. The way I want to use virtual box is to have several images based on the same base (XP in this case) I'm running virtual Box on Vista. According to the documentation I need to run vBoxManage clonehd <file1> <file2>

However I find myself having to type the following command which in itself seems excessive

vBoxManage clonehd "\Documents and Settings\Stuart\.VirtualBox\HardDisks\XP Base.vdi" "\Documents and Settings\.VirtualBox\HardDisks\New.vdi"

The error I get is "Cannot register the hard disk "...XP Base" because a hard disk "...XP Base" already exists in the media registry

Any ideas what I am doing wrong?

Thanks

Stuart

[eFloh]

You are totally right with your command. after the cloning, you can add the "New.vdi" file, not the old one unsing the media manager.
Have a look at http://www.die-rooter.de/ITworks/archiv ... neVDI.html for a GUI application to clone your VDIs...

[smt3mm]

I actually managed it this morning. I typed the same command and it worked. I think it had something to do with using 'Documents and Settings' rather than 'users' but can't be sure. After that, I worked out that using the --remember option made it all work pretty seamlessly. I them created a whole new VM with the cloned image. I'll have a look at that app and thanks for the help.

Regards

Stuart