VboxManage clonehd does not work with relative path names

[Jim Avera]

VBoxManage clonehd does not work correctly if an absolute path is not specified for the source disk image. Even ./whatever does not work:

The program seems to contain logic which tries to replace a ./ prefix with the full directory path, but the result is incorrect and the file is not found. See below.

Host system: Linux ubuntu 8.10 (intrepid) 64-bit (kernel 2.6.27)

$ cd /home/jima/.VirtualBox/diskimages
$ ls -la
total 11168512
drwxr-xr-x 2 jima jima        4096 2009-02-13 16:57 .
drwxr-xr-x 4 jima jima        4096 2009-02-19 12:24 ..
-rw------- 1 jima jima 11425366528 2009-02-26 17:46 Win7B64_disk.vdi
$ VBoxManage clonehd ./Win7B64_disk.vdi  /tmp/New.vdi
VirtualBox Command Line Management Interface Version 2.1.4
(C) 2005-2009 Sun Microsystems, Inc.
All rights reserved.

[!] FAILED calling a->virtualBox->OpenHardDisk2(src, srcDisk.asOutParam()) at line 369!
[!] Primary RC  = VBOX_E_IPRT_ERROR (0x80BB0005) - Runtime subsystem error
[!] Full error info present: true , basic error info present: true 
[!] Result Code = VBOX_E_IPRT_ERROR (0x80BB0005) - Runtime subsystem error
[!] Text        = Could not get the storage format of the hard disk '/home/jima/.VirtualBox/Win7B64_disk.vdi' (VERR_FILE_NOT_FOUND)
[!] Component   = HardDisk2, Interface: IHardDisk2, {ed6e2525-c2fd-42a4-917a-7a9045ac9e15}
[!] Callee      = IVirtualBox, {339abca2-f47a-4302-87f5-7bc324e6bbde}

[Technologov]

Problem Confirmed.

Bug still exists in v3.2.0

-Technologov

[Klaus Espenlaub]

This is being worked on at the moment, and is part of a bigger redesign effort which will be completed with VirtualBox 4.0.

With existing VirtualBox versions we could just add more hacks which in the end will make everything even more confusing.

[Frank Mehnert]

Should work well in VBox 4.0. Either specify an absolute path name or a relative path name starting from the current directory.