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I think it would be a good idea to let us name our virtual machines whatever we want. Right now, I keep having to start my configuration over every time. Say I am installing a 64-bit Ubuntu guest that I want to name Ubuntu. I go through the wizard and then go through the settings until I get to the virtual CD. I choose the iso "Ubuntu-10.04-amd64.iso" (just an example). It then says that I did not name my machine correctly and makes me cancel out to go change the name. Then I have to try to figure out if it wants me to name it Ubuntu 64, or Ubuntu amd64, or Ubuntu-amd64, or whatever. Each time, I have to go through and redo the settings changes I want. Is this really necessary? Why is the whole configuration based on the name of the iso I want to mount to install the first time?

I have no idea why this is happening to you. I name mine anything I want and can even rename the guest (not the machine.vdi). Maybe if you tell us step by step what you do when creating a new VM we can figure out what you are doing wrong.

Moving to Using VirtualBox as this is actually invalid here.

Thanks for your reply!

To get started, this is VB 3.2.10r66523 running on a Fedora 13 64 bit host. I happen to have a Fedora-14-x86_64-Live-KDE.iso file ready, so I will use that.

Click the blue New icon. Click next past the greeting.
Name it Fedora, change the version to Fedora (64bit). Next.
I normally give my boxes 2048 MB memory. Next.
Boot Hard disk is checked. Create new hard disk selected. Next.
Click next past the new disk wizard greeting.
Dynamic Storage, next. Leave Location and size default. I normally change the size, but whatever. Next, then Finish.
Click Finish again to get you back to the main VB window.
With new machine 'Fedora' selected, click the General link on the right.
I like my toolbar at the top in Advanced Tab. Now go to system.
Enable PAE/NX (yes I have it) under Processor and make sure everything is enabled under Acceleration (I have those too).
Display - Bump Video Memory up to 128MB and enable 3d (virtual compiz is awesome!)
Storage - On SATA controller, make sure Host I/O is checked so it doesn't grumble. Same with IDE. Click on the CD icon.This is where the fun begins.
Click the folder by CD/DVD Device to start the media manager. Add my Fedora 14 ISO. Make sure it is selected and click Select.

This is where it would break before. It would not let me click Select because it said that the name under the General tab was incorrect or incomplete or something. I had to cancel out and start over.

And wouldn't you know this time it worked and I can't get it to break again. It just happened to me twice before today with bt4-final and FreeNAS-amd64. I had to add Final and amd64 to the machine name to get it to work. Will follow up in a minute if I can get it to break again.

*EDIT: It seems to be working fine now. This happens off and on, not sure why. Will just deal with it. Thanks.

This is what I am talking about. Notice that I am adding the 64 bit DVD. The name on the General Tab is Red Hat 6. From past experience, it will require me to cancel out (the OK button is disabled), change the name to Red Hat x86_64, then make all my changes again because I cancelled out. I followed all of the same steps that I outlined above.

What happened to the options on the left side with General, Storage, etc.? It's missing in your screenshot, yet the icons show that it's the full window there.

It says at the bottom of the dialog, "Invalid settings detected". I'm wondering if he's been editing the xml manually and this is an xml syntax error? Incomplete name could refer to a name="xxx" field in an xml which is, er, incomplete, perhaps missing quotes or something like that.