Certain calls of VBoxManage clonehd produce a strange error

[Paul Abrahams]

With certain arguments, VBoxManage clonehd produces this strange error:

pwa@Asus-laptop:/aux/Virtual Drives$ VBoxManage clonehd "Windows XP Ultimate.vdi" WXPU2.vdi
Oracle VM VirtualBox Command Line Management Interface Version 3.2.8
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All rights reserved.

ERROR: Cannot register the hard disk '/aux/Virtual Drives/Windows XP Ultimate.vdi' with UUID {f7d38364-8b13-4b33-a804-214066c6b9b7} because a hard disk '/aux/Virtual Drives/Windows XP Ultimate.vdi' with UUID {f7d38364-8b13-4b33-a804-214066c6b9b7} already exists in the media registry ('/home/pwa/.VirtualBox/VirtualBox.xml')
Details: code NS_ERROR_INVALID_ARG (0x80070057), component VirtualBox, interface IVirtualBox, callee nsISupports
Context: "OpenHardDisk(Bstr(szFilenameAbs), AccessMode_ReadWrite, false, Bstr(""), false, Bstr(""), srcDisk.asOutParam())" at line 633 of file VBoxManageDisk.cpp

Note that the first argument has apparently been duplicated to create the second argument, which is why the target VDI appears to already exist. The error seems to be related to the use of relative rather than absolute paths, though some relative paths do work.

[marco]

I can confirm this bug. This bug does not happen with 3.2.6 .... Please fix it :°

[Klaus Espenlaub]

This is a long-standing bug, and it certainly is not regression since 3.2.6.

At the moment the workaround is to use absolute paths.

[Klaus Espenlaub]

duplicate of #3552

[Klaus Espenlaub]

It is a duplicate of #3888. Sorry.