VBoxManage internalcommands sethduuid <FILE> does not work for VHDs => Fixed in SVN

[rallenh]

showhd command before attempt at changing UUID:

$ VBoxManage showhdinfo XPSP3withIE62008Dec.vhd VirtualBox Command Line Management Interface Version 2.1.4 (C) 2005-2009 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved.

UUID: b6202eec-1791-b921-4c0c-4306e34cc487 Accessible: yes Logical size: 16384 MBytes Current size on disk: 1358 MBytes Type: normal Storage format: VHD Location: /home/DECISIV/allen/Documents/VirtualBox/HardDisks/XPSP3withIE62008Dec.vhd

sethduuid command being run and declaring change successful:

$ VBoxManage internalcommands sethduuid XPSP3withIE62008Dec.vhd VirtualBox Command Line Management Interface Version 2.1.4 (C) 2005-2009 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved.

UUID changed to: bbacf79b-de34-43dc-821f-77e2681e6a3d

showhdinfo command showing that uuid was in fact not changed:

$ VBoxManage showhdinfo XPSP3withIE62008Dec.vhd VirtualBox Command Line Management Interface Version 2.1.4 (C) 2005-2009 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved.

UUID: b6202eec-1791-b921-4c0c-4306e34cc487 Accessible: yes Logical size: 16384 MBytes Current size on disk: 1358 MBytes Type: normal Storage format: VHD Location: /home/DECISIV/allen/Documents/VirtualBox/HardDisks/XPSP3withIE62008Dec.vhd

These VHDs are from the Microsoft Download center. I am running VirtualBox on Fedora 10 x86_64. I am using the latest version as of 2/25/09.

[Mark Harr]

I can confirm that sethduuid on VHD file also does not work with Windows Vista (32bit).

[deepak.kumar]

+1, running into the same issue on VirtualBox 2.1.4 running on OS 10.5.6.

[George Harkin]

+1

It would be a great feature if, while importing an image and a duplicate UUID is encountered, VirtualBox can offer to automatically change the UUID of the image. With the appropriate warnings.

Thanks for looking into this issue.

[kimbotha]

+1

Still happens with VirtualBox 2.2.2 on Ubuntu Jaunty

[Chris Senior]

Can you tell us when this change will make it into a release (or put another way, when is the next release due :-)?

[Frank Mehnert]

Sorry, but we cannot promise any ETA. But the next maintenance release will usually be released in a few weeks.

[clive darra]

still cannot open copied (/cloned) vbox vms on windoz 7 running vbox 4.0.12 without getting the duplicate UUID error!

[Frank Mehnert]

This is not what the bug was about. If you copy the image then the UUID is not changed. After copying you have to change the UUID. Or use the VBox function to clone the image -- then the UUID is changed automatically.