id summary reporter owner description type status component version resolution keywords cc guest host 3740 "VBoxManage clonehd ""/full_path_to/ext3disk.img"" ""/full_path_to/disk.vdi"" doesn't work" jors "When trying to clone an ext3 image file to an VDI with the command from the subject, VirtualBox fails with the following error message: {{{ jors@superdell:~$ VBoxManage clonehd ""/full_path_to/ext3disk.img"" ""/full_path_to/disk.vdi"" --format VDI VirtualBox Command Line Management Interface Version 2.2.0 (C) 2005-2009 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved. ERROR: Could not get the storage format of the hard disk '/full_path_to/ext3disk.img' (VERR_NOT_SUPPORTED) Details: code VBOX_E_IPRT_ERROR (0x80bb0005), component HardDisk, interface IHardDisk, callee nsISupports Context: ""OpenHardDisk(src, AccessMode_ReadWrite, srcDisk.asOutParam())"" at line 562 of file VBoxManageDisk.cpp }}} To discard source (ext3) filesystem problems that could lead VirtualBox to don't recognize the source filesystem type, I fsck'ed the filesystem to leave it clean before the cloning operation with no luck. I also tried the following: 1. Creating a 100MB file (zero-filled with dd).[[BR]] 2. Formatting it to ext3.[[BR]] 3. Mount it (as loopback) and copy some files in there.[[BR]] 4. Sync it and unmount it.[[BR]] 5. Tried to run again ""VBoxManage clonehd"", with same error result.[[BR]] I can remember success on the same cloning action and with the same ext3 disk image with a previous version of VirtualBox (virtualbox-2.1_2.1.4-42893_Debian_lenny_amd64.deb). Also say that the source/original ext3 disk image comes from a production Xen virtual machine. Please, do not hesitate to contact me for any other information I could provide. " defect closed other VirtualBox 2.2.0 invalid clone clonehd disk cloning Linux Linux