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I have various VMs and usually Virtualbox handles everything smoothly, but with the Linux Mint 18.1 VM on a 17.3 host. I am trying to get familiar with a clean install of the new OS version before, and if, I upgrade. However ...

At the opening of Virtualbox, it insists that the virtualdisk is "not attached." However, I can run it and boot from it.

Indeed, when I boot up and look at the settings, the disk is attached to the OS. I have installed all the drivers required. Etc., etc.

Post the guests log file ( as an attachment ). Right click on the guest in the Main Manager then click show log. Save and post as an attachment. Compress if it is too large to post.

Perryg wrote:Post the guests log file ( as an attachment ). Right click on the guest in the Main Manager then click show log. Save and post as an attachment. Compress if it is too large to post.

OK, I could not get the full log to compress to the right size.. Here's Vbox.og.2, which fits.

Try again. It did not make it.

Check again.

00:00:00.768317 File system of '/home/cecilio/VirtualBox VMs/Linux Mint 18.1/VirtualDisk1.vdi' is ext4

Normally when you create a new guest it names the virtual drive the same as the name you gave the guest ( Linux Mint 18.1 )

This usually does not matter that you used a different name but it does matter how/when you did it.

Can you elaborate?

Cecilieaux wrote:

Perryg wrote:Compress if it is too large to post.

OK, I could not get the full log to compress to the right size.. Here's Vbox.og.2, which fits.

That's not even compressed! Perryg was talking about creating a ZIP, or a RAR, or a 7Z archive.

Perryg wrote:00:00:00.768317 File system of '/home/cecilio/VirtualBox VMs/Linux Mint 18.1/VirtualDisk1.vdi' is ext4

Normally when you create a new guest it names the virtual drive the same as the name you gave the guest ( Linux Mint 18.1 )

This usually does not matter that you used a different name but it does matter how/when you did it.

Can you elaborate?

I don't understand the question.

socratis wrote:

Cecilieaux wrote:

Perryg wrote:Compress if it is too large to post.

OK, I could not get the full log to compress to the right size.. Here's Vbox.og.2, which fits.

That's not even compressed! Perryg was talking about creating a ZIP, or a RAR, or a 7Z archive.

I'm trying a zip.

Cecilieaux wrote:I don't understand the question.

Perry wants to know how "VirtualDisk1.vdi" came to be attached to this VM, because VirtualBox doesn't create a VM that way.