Saturday, May 22, 2010

Resetting UUID on VDI for VirtualBox

Ran up against a problem when I ‘cloned’ the VDI hard drive files from my Sun VirtualBox lab environment.  The VDI files contain a unique ID (UUID) for the file itself.  THere are commands to clone the file, but if the file has already been copied, the UUID needs to be reset.

Google turned up a hit on Steve Smith’s Blog about what is going on, and how to resolve it.

Documenting the command line syntax here for my own reference:

VBoxManage internalcommands setvdiuuid “MyCopy.vdi”

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