Opened 14 years ago
Closed 12 years ago
#8064 closed defect (fixed)
Improve behavior when a hard disk is missing
| Reported by: | Daniel | Owned by: | |
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| Component: | virtual disk | Version: | VirtualBox 4.0.0 |
| Keywords: | Cc: | ||
| Guest type: | Windows | Host type: | Windows |
Description (last modified by )
I have lots of screenshots and files to attach, so I think it may be easier to just point to the forum, where I've explained the issue in detail:
http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=37969
VirtualBox should be more considerate and tolerant with its users!!
Change History (5)
comment:1 by , 14 years ago
comment:2 by , 14 years ago
| Summary: | VirtualBox is extremely inflexible and cruel when it cannot find a hard disk! → Improve behavior when a hard disk is missing |
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comment:3 by , 14 years ago
To be honest, I don't quite know when this will happen. The normal case is to just show that the hard disk is not accessible, even if there are saved states involved.
comment:4 by , 14 years ago
I've had it happen because I was sharing the same .VDI file for two different virtual machines. However, I was always very careful not to run both guests at the same time.
There's some kind of conflict here that confuses VirtualBox.
In the forum thread linked above I have uploaded my configuration files.
Could you please take a look at them to see if there's anything suspicious inside?
comment:5 by , 12 years ago
| Description: | modified (diff) |
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| Resolution: | → fixed |
| Status: | new → closed |
Closing, please reopen if still relevant with a recent release of VBox.
VirtualBox behavior is excessively intolerant. It should be more understanding to its users and give them the opportunity to specify the path to the .VDI file.