[Solved] Upgrade to 3.0.10 made my VMs disappear!
Posted: 18. Nov 2009, 03:12
Never mind, I figured it out before I could finish typing my message. But, maybe this will help someone else.
My host OS is Vista Enterprise 32bit. I log in as a non-privileged user on our AD domain for security reasons, say DOMAIN\account1 for kicks. Now if course, if i ever want to install anything without having to log out and back on, I can type in a privileged ID from the Vista nag popup message, in this case we'll say DOMAIN\account2. So I did just that to install the 3.0.10 upgrade.
After the upgrade was complete, I had no VM's when I fired up VirtualBox. I was in a total panic, because I have put a lot of work into building my VMs.
The solution was to go into File | Preferences in the VirtualBox console and update the Defaut Hard Disk Folder and the Default Machine Folder to c:\users\account1\.VirtualBox\HardDisks and c:\users\account1\.VirtualBox\Machines, respectively. The problem was that after the upgrade under the privileged account, the default folders had changed to the c:\users\account2\.VirtualBox\HardDisks and \Machines locations, and of course there was nothing there.
I just booted up Ubuntu 9.10 AMD64 and all is well again. Yay!
Hope someone else finds this of use.
My host OS is Vista Enterprise 32bit. I log in as a non-privileged user on our AD domain for security reasons, say DOMAIN\account1 for kicks. Now if course, if i ever want to install anything without having to log out and back on, I can type in a privileged ID from the Vista nag popup message, in this case we'll say DOMAIN\account2. So I did just that to install the 3.0.10 upgrade.
After the upgrade was complete, I had no VM's when I fired up VirtualBox. I was in a total panic, because I have put a lot of work into building my VMs.
The solution was to go into File | Preferences in the VirtualBox console and update the Defaut Hard Disk Folder and the Default Machine Folder to c:\users\account1\.VirtualBox\HardDisks and c:\users\account1\.VirtualBox\Machines, respectively. The problem was that after the upgrade under the privileged account, the default folders had changed to the c:\users\account2\.VirtualBox\HardDisks and \Machines locations, and of course there was nothing there.
I just booted up Ubuntu 9.10 AMD64 and all is well again. Yay!
Hope someone else finds this of use.