[solved]Suddenly an inaccesible guest?

[lugoteehalt]

Start up VirtualBox as usual and the normal guest I use, Debian Lenny 5 32 bit, is inaccessible. It say:

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Could not find a hard disk with UUID {a7d99ada-aeab-45bb-ba33-5eab6659fa25} in the media registry ('/home/lugo/.VirtualBox/VirtualBox.xml').
Result Code: 
VBOX_E_OBJECT_NOT_FOUND (0x80BB0001)
Component: 
VirtualBox
Interface: 
IVirtualBox {3f36e024-7fed-4f20-a02c-9158a82b44e6}

No idea what to do, any suggestions?

Host is Debian Lenny 5 64bit - I use virtual box to get adobe flashplayer, which has removed support for 64 bit. It works surprisingly well.

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cat /home/lugo/.VirtualBox/VirtualBox.xml
<?xml version="1.0"?>                                                  
<VirtualBox xmlns="http://www.innotek.de/VirtualBox-settings" version="1.7-linux">
  <Global>                                                                        
    <ExtraData>                                                                   
      <ExtraDataItem name="GUI/LastVMSelected" value="1eae8cc1-3a35-4dbc-b84c-4b8ed7e1c7cc"/>                                                                         
      <ExtraDataItem name="GUI/LastWindowPostion" value="271,93,770,550"/>         
      <ExtraDataItem name="GUI/LicenseAgreed" value="7,8"/>                        
      <ExtraDataItem name="GUI/RegistrationData" value="triesLeft=0"/>             
      <ExtraDataItem name="GUI/SUNOnlineData" value="triesLeft=0"/>                
      <ExtraDataItem name="GUI/SuppressMessages" value="confirmInputCapture,remindAboutAutoCapture,remindAboutMouseIntegrationOn,remindAboutMouseIntegrationOff,showRuntimeError.warning.HostAudioNotResponding"/>                                       
      <ExtraDataItem name="GUI/UpdateCheckCount" value="26"/>                      
      <ExtraDataItem name="GUI/UpdateDate" value="1 d, 2010-07-24, stable"/>       
    </ExtraData>                                                                   
    <MachineRegistry>                                                              
      <MachineEntry uuid="{afd14127-1ad7-45f1-cbab-3dc9bae4e891}" src="Machines/Ubuntu_i386/Ubuntu_i386.xml"/>                                                        
      <MachineEntry uuid="{628da85e-b35c-4984-d389-b1278b2ff47e}" src="Machines/Opensolaris/Opensolaris.xml"/>                                                        
      <MachineEntry uuid="{8704e9bd-5572-453c-a293-990ae74293a2}" src="Machines/Windows98SE/Windows98SE.xml"/>                                                        
      <MachineEntry uuid="{82276e21-a82f-4ebb-8163-df21d318b044}" src="Machines/DSL/DSL.xml"/>                                                                        
      <MachineEntry uuid="{1eae8cc1-3a35-4dbc-b84c-4b8ed7e1c7cc}" src="Machines/Debian_Lenny_5_32/Debian_Lenny_5_32.xml"/>                                            
      <MachineEntry uuid="{b6630914-c42e-40d4-8c84-20e6eaa6f7a8}" src="Machines/ELive/ELive.xml"/>                                                                    
    </MachineRegistry>                                                             
    <MediaRegistry>                                                                
      <HardDisks>                                                                  
        <HardDisk uuid="{bac64be4-dd06-4616-548d-2d3e8a5310b8}" location="VDI/opensolaris.vdi" format="VDI" type="Normal"/>                                           
        <HardDisk uuid="{6aa1a441-b396-4872-08bb-13d70bad8c72}" location="VDI/Ubuntu_i386.vdi" format="VDI" type="Normal"/>                                           
        <HardDisk uuid="{a830c626-d14b-4f94-ef81-f4a145b70cf2}" location="/home/eric/eric/VirtualBox/Windows98SE/win98SE.vdi" format="VDI" type="Normal">             
          <HardDisk uuid="{015a770e-be06-4656-16b4-327693fdf346}" location="Machines/Windows98SE/Snapshots/{015a770e-be06-4656-16b4-327693fdf346}.vdi" format="VDI"/> 
        </HardDisk>                                                                
        <HardDisk uuid="{eaf9996b-8392-4b7e-b0fd-9c2352067e94}" location="HardDisks/DSL.vdi" format="VDI" type="Normal"/>                                             
        <HardDisk uuid="{c9a9c5d7-1778-413f-ae50-3202b607a73d}" location="HardDisks/Debian_Lenny_5_32.vdi" format="VDI" type="Normal">                                
          <HardDisk uuid="{6daad6a2-9ee7-4940-bf68-50c2e3169cb0}" location="/home/eric/.VirtualBox/Machines/Debian_Lenny_5_32/Snapshots/{6daad6a2-9ee7-4940-bf68-50c2e3169cb0}.vdi" format="VDI">                                                        
            <HardDisk uuid="{78b33d5b-759d-4394-9411-0462f0e27021}" location="/home/eric/.VirtualBox/Machines/Debian_Lenny_5_32/Snapshots/{78b33d5b-759d-4394-9411-0462f0e27021}.vdi" format="VDI"/>                                                     
          </HardDisk>                                                              
        </HardDisk>                                                                
        <HardDisk uuid="{10c9688c-7760-49d9-bc3b-fbd4f257e925}" location="HardDisks/ELive.vdi" format="VDI" type="Normal"/>                                           
      </HardDisks>                                                                 
      <DVDImages>                                                                  
        <Image uuid="{4945cd59-0bb4-4466-aff8-afa51264c222}" location="/home/eric/Iso/currentDSL.iso"/>                                                               
        <Image uuid="{0e5ced2a-c448-4b4d-ad4c-7e07a19ceb00}" location="/usr/share/virtualbox/VBoxGuestAdditions.iso"/>                                                
      </DVDImages>                                                                 
      <FloppyImages/>                                                              
    </MediaRegistry>
    <NetserviceRegistry>
      <DHCPServers>
        <DHCPServer networkName="HostInterfaceNetworking-vboxnet0" IPAddress="192.168.56.2" networkMask="255.255.255.0" lowerIP="192.168.56.3" upperIP="192.168.56.255" enabled="1"/>
      </DHCPServers>
    </NetserviceRegistry>
    <SystemProperties defaultMachineFolder="Machines" defaultHardDiskFolder="HardDisks" defaultHardDiskFormat="VDI" remoteDisplayAuthLibrary="VRDPAuth" webServiceAuthLibrary="VRDPAuth" LogHistoryCount="3"/>
    <USBDeviceFilters/>
  </Global>
</VirtualBox>

The other guests work properly.

[Sasquatch]

That's one weird setup you have there. VDI files all over the place. You have some in HardDisks, in /home/eric/eric/VirtualBox, and some other places (some are snapshots, that's normal). Now it's looking for a VDI in a different home folder. If you run as user Eric, then it's normal it can't find the file because you don't have access to it.

[lugoteehalt]

Huge thanks. Fixed it by accident: Right clicked the inaccessible OS; unregistered it; started the "new" wizard to recreate the thing; at one point chose to use an existing thing and simply selected the original whatever it is, ?virtual disk image?. It now works again.