Ticket #25 (closed defect: fixed)
Unable to create a VM with a dot "." in VM name
| Reported by: | Technologov | Owned by: | |
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| Priority: | critical | Component: | other |
| Version: | VirtualBox 1.3.2 | Keywords: | |
| Cc: | Guest type: | other | |
| Host type: | other |
Description
If you try to create a VM with a dot "." in the VM name, VirtualBox will fail.
Software: Windows XP Pro SP2 Eng, no extra patches, VirtualBox 1.3.2 Full.
Try to create a VM named "Linux Test v1.0" using standard parameters and clicking next, you will get this error: =====================================================
Could not create the settings file 'H:\IVMs\Linux Test v1.0\Linux Test v1.0.xml' (VERR_PATH_NOT_FOUND).
Result Code: E_FAIL (0x80004005) Component: Machine Interface: IMachine {fd443ec1-0009-4f5b-9282-d72760a66916} Callee: IVirtualBox {e1d95593-f579-4f47-b489-0b67181014e1}
===================================================== When using "Linux Test v1" instead of "Linux Test v1.0" all works fine.
Because this bug affects a LOT of users, I assign this high priority. I believe it's not hard-to-fix.
Change History
comment:2 Changed 8 years ago by Technologov
recommendation: test with really long VM names, with strange/illegal symbols. (and give proper error messages when user tries to make something like this)
comment:3 Changed 8 years ago by Technologov
fixed in VirtualBox 1.3.4.
-Alexey Eremenko
this bug is related to a smaller bug #24.