Split2G option is not supported and should give an error message => fixed in 3.0.12

[Joe]

I'm assuming that the --variant Split2G option is not supported - see e.g. ​http://www.virtualbox.de/ticket/3802

The defect is that it's accepted and createhd or clonehd operations appear to succeed. But then the resulting disk can't be used. E.g.:

C:\Program Files\Sun\xVM VirtualBox>VBoxManage clonehd T:\Systems\VirtualBox\VDI
\UbunTrek.vdi T:\Systems\VirtualBox\VDI\UbunTrek2G.vmdk --format VMDK --variant
Split2G --remember
VirtualBox Command Line Management Interface Version 3.0.2
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All rights reserved.

0%...10%...20%...FAILED
Error: failed to clone hard disk. Error message: Could not create the clone hard
 disk 'T:\Systems\VirtualBox\VDI\UbunTrek2G.vmdk' (VERR_OUT_OF_RANGE) 

A similar error happens with createhd and clonehd --existing.

Commands with --variant Split2G should fail with an error message.

[Klaus Espenlaub]

What you observed is a bug which is fixed in 3.0.12. The "split2g not supported" statement was true for 3.0.0, after that the implementation was there but had an obscure bug.