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Hello

I found out that VBox was storing diff files for my raw disks for each snapshot I took. Fair enough, that's a pretty cool feature, one that I don't remember seeing in VMware, for instance.

However, I'd like these raw disks to just be independent of my snapshot. No diff files, please. I found this tip, http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=26415, but the suggestion here just throws a "Could not find an open hard disk with location 'C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox\aaa.vmdk'" error.

The exact error here is copy/pasted from after I first tried the command on an existing .vmdk, then tried creating a new one - the aaa.vmdk one.

Any clues on this? I don't mind editing the .vmdks myself, I just need to know what to put in there

Thanks in advance,
Daniel

FWIW, I tried changing <HardDisk uuid=... type="Normal" /> to types Writethrough, writethrough, and WriteThrough without any luck; the harddrive just disappears from the configuration once I open the VM in VBox.

That's in the .vbox main file, not the .vmdk, of course

Figured it out, the vmdk HAS to be attached before changing its type, or VBox has no clue what you're talking about. This post, http://forums.virtualbox.org/posting.ph ... =6&t=34450 will give more info.

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