VirtualBox

Opened 16 years ago

Closed 14 years ago

#1076 closed enhancement (fixed)

error message not helpful when machine description file was opened with newer release of VBox

Reported by: ugemkow Owned by:
Component: GUI Version: VirtualBox 1.5.4
Keywords: error handling, error messages Cc:
Guest type: other Host type: other

Description

I created a VM with 1.5.0 and later opened this VM with 1.5.4. When trying to open this vm with 1.5.0 again, an error message is printed and the start fails because 1.5.4 has added tags to the machine description which the old release does not understand. This has two aspects IMHO:

  • It should IMHO be possible to exchange VMs in the same release (1.5.x) series without an error in case of regressions
  • The printed error message is rather long but not very helpful. At least the tag on which the reading fails, should be printed.

Change History (2)

comment:1 by Frank Mehnert, 16 years ago

Component: otherGUI

comment:2 by Frank Mehnert, 14 years ago

Resolution: fixed
Status: newclosed

As of version 3.1.0, VBox changed the handling of the VM settings. XML format changes are now handled more tolerant.

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