Error - Virtual hard disks ... are not currently accessible

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Boo2
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Error - Virtual hard disks ... are not currently accessible

Post by Boo2 »

Hi,

I recently changed the login to a NAS on my system network and since then when I start VB (version 4.1.8 r75467) I get a dialog box showing :

"One or more virtual hard disks, CD?DVD or floppy media are not currently accessible. As a result, you will not be able to operate virtual machines that use these media until they become accessible later..."

I press the <Check> button and it comes up with a list comprising all of my .vdi files. None of my virtual machines seem broken so can anyone tell me what the problem is ?

Thanks,

Boo
Perryg
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Re: Error - Virtual hard disks ... are not currently accessi

Post by Perryg »

The problem is probably due to changing the NAS login. Hard to say with so little information. What did/does the NAS supply to the guest/s?
Is it shares or the actual guest/s ?
Boo2
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Re: Error - Virtual hard disks ... are not currently accessi

Post by Boo2 »

Perryg wrote:The problem is probably due to changing the NAS login. Hard to say with so little information. What did/does the NAS supply to the guest/s?
Is it shares or the actual guest/s ?
Sorry, I was not very clear but AFAIK nothing that VirtualBox depends upon is stored on the NAS but it may have been mounted as a network drive before, I can't remember.

As I said, the VMs reported to have noc currently accessible media all work without issue so it seems to be something wrong with VirtualBox Manager.

Any ideas gratefully received,

Boo
Perryg
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Re: Error - Virtual hard disks ... are not currently accessi

Post by Perryg »

Well that really didn't clear it up for me.

If there were shared folders that had been mapped to the NAS that could produce the warning.

Do the guests actually start and are they functional?

Did you log in as a different user on the host?
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