{"id":135,"date":"2008-07-29T14:31:38","date_gmt":"2008-07-29T13:31:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.walkingrandomly.com\/?p=135"},"modified":"2008-08-04T09:47:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-04T08:47:00","slug":"a-little-virtualbox-tip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/?p=135","title":{"rendered":"A little VirtualBox tip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.virtualbox.org\/\">VirtualBox<\/a> and find myself using it more and more often but had a little problem with it this morning that took me a few minutes to solve.  This post is essentially a note to self.  It would be a bonus if it turned out to help someone else too (please let me know if it does).<\/p>\n<p>So I am using version  1.5.6 of VirtualBox on Ubuntu 8.04 (hardy Heron) and I wanted to clone a vdi image to save me from having to go through the Operating System installation from scratch for a particular virtual machine.  I navigated to the directory containing the vdi images and issued the command<\/p>\n<p><strong>VBoxManage clonevdi .\/clean_machine.vdi .\/copy_of_cleanmachine.vdi<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>which resulted in the error<\/p>\n<p>Text = Could not access hard disk image &#8216;\/home\/mike\/.VirtualBox\/clean_machine.vdi&#8217; (VERR_FILE_NOT_FOUND)<\/p>\n<p>The file definitely <strong>was<\/strong> there so this confused me for a bit.  It turns out that you need to provide the full path to your vdi files &#8211; not just the relative path.  Something like<\/p>\n<p><strong>VBoxManage clonevdi \/home\/mike\/.VirtualBox\/VDI\/clean_machine.vdi \/home\/mike\/.VirtualBox\/VDI\/copy_of_cleanmachine.vdi<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>did the trick.<\/p>\n<p>If you found this article useful, feel free to <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/WalkingRandomly\">click here to subscribe to my RSS Feed.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I like VirtualBox and find myself using it more and more often but had a little problem with it this morning that took me a few minutes to solve. This post is essentially a note to self. It would be a bonus if it turned out to help someone else too (please let me know [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3swhs-2b","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}