Failed to open a session for the virtual machine
Posted: 22. Jun 2011, 14:43
Over past year, I'll be working along fine, periodically creating snapshots, cleaning up old, nothing too cosmic, and wham! Will get "Failed to open a session for the virtual machine...{then the name}". It claims it could not open the medium C:\Users\{path to the .vdi}. Doesn't matter which snapshot I select. This has happened at least a half-dozen times.
Every time, the path is fine, nothing's changed in the config of VirtualBox, it doesn't seem to coincide with any activity such as deleting a snapshot, or creating a new one. The .vdi it's pointing to can't be found in any of the snapshots or anywhere in the config file (*.vbox). I've read some of the posts here that allude to somethings like this, and I tweek the .vbox file and monkey with the .XML file -- nothing works. I usually end up having to create a new machine and point it to an "existing hard disk" -- it works, but brings up an incredibly "old" build (the original, I assume) where I have to redo all the changes I've made over the last year (and wait for updates again!).
I'm on 4.0.8. Host OS is Win7, VM is XP sp3.
VD: error VERR_FILE_NOT_FOUND opening image file 'C:\{path to vdi}'
Result Code: E_FAIL (0X80004005) -- don't you love error messages like this with no way to look them up?
Any help would be appreciated. I *really* don't want to go back to MS's Virtual PC...
thanks!
Every time, the path is fine, nothing's changed in the config of VirtualBox, it doesn't seem to coincide with any activity such as deleting a snapshot, or creating a new one. The .vdi it's pointing to can't be found in any of the snapshots or anywhere in the config file (*.vbox). I've read some of the posts here that allude to somethings like this, and I tweek the .vbox file and monkey with the .XML file -- nothing works. I usually end up having to create a new machine and point it to an "existing hard disk" -- it works, but brings up an incredibly "old" build (the original, I assume) where I have to redo all the changes I've made over the last year (and wait for updates again!).
I'm on 4.0.8. Host OS is Win7, VM is XP sp3.
VD: error VERR_FILE_NOT_FOUND opening image file 'C:\{path to vdi}'
Result Code: E_FAIL (0X80004005) -- don't you love error messages like this with no way to look them up?
Any help would be appreciated. I *really* don't want to go back to MS's Virtual PC...
thanks!