If you delete an iso image,you can't remove it from the list

[michel]

If you delete an iso image,you can't remove it from the list of "Virtual Disk Manager" and, of course it refuses to start if he can't find the file.I trivially bipased it,by simply recreating an empty file of the same name,and only then i could remove it from the list and i just realized,that i forgot to delete it.

So,the request is that you should be able to remove a file from the list,even if he can't find it,maybe with an extra warning or something.I suppose that preventing it from starting it's a feature.

On, Linux,Ubuntu 32bits feisty.

[michel]

sorry,i cant edit my self.

It shouldn't remove automatically anything that he doesn't find.For the cases where a user mounts and umounts several drivers.In my mind,just permit the removal with a warning should be enough.

[Frank Mehnert]

Before you can remove the .iso image you have to release the image from the VM to which it is assigned. After releasing the image you are able to remove it.

[mAdDaWg]

Who closed this? And how is it invalid?

1. This is still an Issue 11 years later and it is easily reproducible.
2. None of my VM's have the ISO associated
3. I should not have to spoof files or directly edit metadata to remove a non-existent, unreleased ISO
4. Even if you don't follow the procedure, should the media now just be "permanently" irremovable? The initial response to this was unprofessional and short-sighted. PEBKAC errors that are manageable need to be accounted for

To Reproduce:

1. Mount an ISO to a VM
2. Boot up the VM using the ISO
3. Unmount the ISO
4. Remove the "physical" ISO
5. Open Virtualbox Media Manager

You will be notified that Virtualbox cannot find the iso. You will be also unable to remove the iso from the media list

[Socratis]

Replying to mAdDaWg:

You will be also unable to remove the iso from the media list

Are you sure about that last part? Not even Release, Remove? Because I do it all the time, that's why I'm asking you...