Error opening up VM in Ububtu. Possible Corrupt VDI?
Posted: 8. Nov 2017, 17:18
I recovered my set of VBox files from a corrupt Windows box. I am trying to open the VM now in a linux OS, but get the following error:
I have tried to replace the bytes at the start of the snapshot vdi with those of a new vdi (as detailed in other posts), but still get the same errors.
The PhD-Ubuntu.vdi file is empty, however I have several snapshots. Is there any known issues with opening up a VM created in Windows on a Linux machine? Or is my VDI corrupt?Failed to open a session for the virtual machine PhD-Ubuntu.
Could not open the medium '/home/stephen/VirtualBox VMs/PhD-Ubuntu/PhD-Ubuntu.vdi'.
VDI: error reading pre-header in '/home/stephen/VirtualBox VMs/PhD-Ubuntu/PhD-Ubuntu.vdi' (VERR_EOF).
VD: error VERR_VD_VDI_INVALID_HEADER opening image file '/home/stephen/VirtualBox VMs/PhD-Ubuntu/PhD-Ubuntu.vdi' (VERR_VD_VDI_INVALID_HEADER).
Result Code: NS_ERROR_FAILURE (0x80004005)
Component: MediumWrap
Interface: IMedium {4afe423b-43e0-e9d0-82e8-ceb307940dda}
I have tried to replace the bytes at the start of the snapshot vdi with those of a new vdi (as detailed in other posts), but still get the same errors.