id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	component	version	resolution	keywords	cc	guest	host
9608	VBoxManage storageattach fails when using the same filename again after delete and restarting VirtualBox fixes it)	VirtualBoxBug		"I create a VM with VBoxManage using a batch.
I copy an empty VDI to a filename of the VM.
I attach the VDI with

VBoxManage storageattach ""%variable%"" --storagectl ""IDE Controller"" --port 1 --device 0 --type hdd --medium ""%variable.vdi"" --setuuid %variable

This works the first time.

I delete the VM and repeat the process above, but when attaching the VDI file I get

VBoxManage.exe: error: Storage for the medium 'C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox\data\.VirtualBox\HardDisks\secondtimefails.vdi' is not created
VBoxManage.exe: error: Details: code VBOX_E_INVALID_OBJECT_STATE (0x80bb0007), component Medium, interface IMedium, callee IUnknown
Context: ""SetIDs(fSetNewUuid, bstrNewUuid.raw(), fSetNewParentUuid, bstrNewParentUuid.raw())"" at line 637 of file VBoxManageStorageControlle
r.cpp
VBoxManage.exe: error: Failed to set the medium/parent medium UUID

If delete the VM, and try it again, the same result. But here's the thing:
When I exit VirtualBox (all of its processes) and launch it again, everything works like on the first time, and the problem repeats on the second.

Any name I try reusing fails until restart of VirtualBox.

(%variable is not a real variable, it's a placeholder)

This worked in 3.x. (And I'm probably going to have to go back to it and try 4 later; you've broken quite a few things between 3 and 4.)"	defect	closed	VMM	VirtualBox 4.1.2	obsolete	VBoxManage, storageattach, vdi		Windows	Windows