New Hard Disk wizard doesn't add ".vdi" extension if the VDI filename contains a dot

[Technologov]

In cases where the Computer name has "." dot version, VirtualBox behaves erratically.

Software: Windows XP Pro SP2 Eng, no extra patches, VirtualBox 1.3.2 Full.

steps to reproduce: create a new VM->Name: "Linux Test v1.0", type: "Unknown"->Next->Next->New VHDD->Next->Dynamically expanding image->Image File Name->"Linux Test v1.0"->Next->Finish

VBox doesn't adds ".vdi" extension automatically.

[Technologov]

this is a sub-portion of the more serious bug #25.

[Technologov]

Bug still exists in 1.3.4.

[Technologov]

recommended behavior:

If it does seems "." it still must add ".vdi" extension automatically, with few exceptions to this rule: a) if user has added ".vdi" manually b) if user has added ".VDI" (upper-case) manually

What do you think?

-Alexey Eremenko

[Dmitry A. Kuminov]

Back then, the idea was to let the user a possibility to specify a custom extension when creating a new VDI in the New VDI Wizard. It doesn't seem really useful for me any more -- if it's really necessary one can still use VBoxManage that doesn't apply any extension automatically.

The proposed behavior will be available in the next release with the exception that on Linux, VBox VDI files have the ".vdi" extension, not ".VDI" or ".VdI" or whatever. On Win32, it's case insensitive.