Opened 9 years ago
Last modified 9 years ago
#14165 new defect
Virtual machine loses hard drive when settings are changed.
| Reported by: | eqh | Owned by: | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Component: | virtual disk | Version: | VirtualBox 4.3.28 |
| Keywords: | FATAL | Cc: | |
| Guest type: | Windows | Host type: | Windows |
Description
This problem is described at length in the forum at this link: http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=68147&p=323314&e=323314
After shutting down the guest OS and changing its settings using VirtualBox Manager the virtual machine loses its DVD and/or HDD configuration. The message: FATAL: Could not read from the boot medium! System halted.
is displayed and it not possible to recover the disk. (Things tried restoring the original .vbox and .vbox-prev files, running VBoxManage internalcommands sethduuid etc. )
This problem is not present in VirtualBox 4.3.20.
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by , 9 years ago
comment:1 by , 9 years ago
We have never seen such a behavior. Any specific action to reproduce this? From your description it does not look like. Could you also attach the corresponding VBoxSVC.log files from the .VirtualBox directory? Also, did you see any crashes of VBoxSVC or the VM process?
Virtual box log files