VB looks at mounted drive instead of my C drive

[Daishi]

After rebooting my computer, virtualbox is defaulting to looking at my Z drive (my active directory home drive that is mapped on login) for my guests. This behavior changed maybe 5 or 6 versions ago, I didn't track the version where it first happened. I am currently running the latest (just ran the updates). If I unmount my Z drive and restart virtualbox, all is fine and I see my guests listed just fine. My Preference setting for Default Machine Folder is set to C:\Users\daishi\.VirtualBox. I can't find any place else to set a path.

This is an inconvenience, not a show stopper, which is why it has taken me so long to ask about it. My googlefoo is failing in that I just find posts about mount guests on hosts and vice versa. If anyone has encountered this, or knows of a fix, I'd appreciate it.

Thanks!

[Perryg]

What is the path to your actual guests folder?

[Daishi]

C:\Users\daishi\VirtualBox VMs

[Perryg]

Then that is what you set in preferences.

[Daishi]

That is what is set. If Z is mounted when virtualbox starts up, it looks there. I discovered this by creating a new guest and finding where it was placed. I can go and check that preference and that is what will be set. I quit virtualbox, unmount Z and everything is fine. I just happened to discover that gvim wants to use Z as it's temp space, so maybe this is some weird Windows thing completely unrelated to virtualbox.

[mpack]

That is what is set.

That isn't what you said in your first post, in which you said ".VirtualBox" was set as the default machine folder.

As far as I know, the official VirtualBox never looks in more than one place for VMs. So is your VirtualBox downloaded from this site, or are we talking Portable VirtualBox?