VirtualBox

Opened 11 years ago

Closed 8 years ago

#11210 closed defect (obsolete)

Compacting a writethrough or multiattach disk makes the virtual machines inaccessible

Reported by: askox Owned by:
Component: virtual disk Version: VirtualBox 4.2.4
Keywords: Cc:
Guest type: all Host type: Mac OS X

Description

  1. Edit and then zerofree a writethrough or multiattach disk
  2. Do not detach from machines
  3. VBoxManage modifyhd --compact
  4. Open VirtualBox. The machines have become inaccessible. showhdinfo reports that the disk is now in normal mode.

Whenever you do hdinfo or modifyhd --type, and open VirtualBox within 5 seconds, the machines will be accessible. If you do hdinfo or modifyhd --type, and open VirtualBox after 5 seconds, the machines will be inaccessible.

Change History (2)

comment:1 by askox, 11 years ago

Cloning the disk makes it (the original copy) accessible again.

comment:2 by aeichner, 8 years ago

Resolution: obsolete
Status: newclosed

Please reopen if still relevant with a recent VirtualBox release.

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