Virtual machine inaccessible (shared folder inaccessible)

[swolf]

I create a virtual machine (host and guest Linux Debian Etch, Kernel 2.6), take a few snapshots and all works fine. However, the machine becomes inaccessible and I get the following error:

Hard disk '/home/swolf/.VirtualBox/VDI/Debian-Etch.vdi' with UUID {e4d93397-e4de-4cb3-bb5b-52deb2ccb32e} is already attached to a machine with UUID {bdf8bcca-82db-4156-902a-0e9658db7b6c}

The hard disk with UUID {e4d93397-e4de-4cb3-bb5b-52deb2ccb32e} was created on creating of the virtual machine with UUID {bdf8bcca-82db-4156-902a-0e9658db7b6c} by using VirtualBox.

[Sander van Leeuwen]

Can you reproduce this and, if so, post a step by step description? You can try to discard the snapshots.

[QM]

It happens if in the VM xml-config in the ANY "<SharedFolder hostPath="/bla/bla" name="bla"/> section hostPath is defined wrong or hostPath - symlink.

PS Sorry, I do not know english well.

[Sander van Leeuwen]

Replying to qm:

It happens if in the VM xml-config in the ANY "<SharedFolder hostPath="/bla/bla" name="bla"/> section hostPath is defined wrong or hostPath - symlink.

I've managed to reproduce this. We'll fix this. Thanks.

[Michael]

This just happened to me using VirtualBox 1.5.0 in Ubuntu Gutsy. I fixed it by removing the symlinked shared folder and correcting shared folder paths. I also had to manually insert the snapshots back into VirtualBox.xml.

[Martin]

Replying to michael003:

I fixed it by removing the symlinked shared folder and correcting shared folder paths. I also had to manually insert the snapshots back into VirtualBox.xml.

Can you write a HowTo to correct this problem?

[Frank Mehnert]

Duplicate of #822.