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At school i exported the whole appliance to an .ova container, which took nearly an hour
for a 3.5 GiB .vdi and an 13 GiB snapshot file, and imported it over on a freshly installed
Win 7 machine with VirtualBox 4.0.8 and it worked like a charm.

@perryg: Is it possible to add me to the watch list or CC me for the ticket that AntonyReynolds opened?

Reply to the ticket and you will be added. You need to setup an account there as it is on a different system though.

I solved this removing any references to DVDs from <DVDImages> AND <StorageControllers> in .vbox file

I found out that I had missed a SharedFolders reference.
I deleted all references to DVDImages and SharedFolders, replacing
<DVDImages>...<DVDImages> with <DVDImages/>
and
<SharedFolders>...<SharedFolders> with <SharedFolders/>

Seems that earlier versions were more forgiving.

I had the same issue, and this thread gave me the clues that I needed to resolve.

For me, I had attached a second VHD on the Source machine, which I had neglected to copy to the Target machine.

EG;

<AttachedDevice type="HardDisk" port="0" device="0">
<Image uuid="{Blahblah}"/>
</AttachedDevice>
<AttachedDevice type="HardDisk" port="1" device="0">
<Image uuid="{Blargh}"/>
</AttachedDevice>


I simply removed the second device and bingo.