VERR_NOT_SUPPORTED after shutting down a WS2008 VHD

[George Harkin]

After shutting down and then trying to restart a WS2008 instance i receive a VERR_NOT_SUPPORTED error. Machine was working fine until this issue.

$ VBoxManage -nologo showhdinfo WS08_RTM_x86_EnterpriseVHD.vhd
ERROR: Could not get the storage format of the hard disk '/data/files/WS2008/WS08_RTM_x86_EnterpriseVHD.vhd' (VERR_NOT_SUPPORTED)
Details: code VBOX_E_IPRT_ERROR (0x80bb0005), component HardDisk, interface IHardDisk, callee nsISupports
Context: "OpenHardDisk(Bstr(szFilenameAbs), AccessMode_ReadWrite, hardDisk.asOutParam())" at line 1117 of file VBoxManageDisk.cpp

[Frank Mehnert]

Please could you check if the image file is still accessible for reading and writing from the host? I want to make sure that there isn't a problem on the host (which host is that, btw)?

And please attach the VBox.log file of your last session.

[George Harkin]

Sadly, I have run VBoxManage too many times trying to restart the system and the log has been overwritten.

The system is a Ubuntu Intrepid 2.6.27-14 32bit

When trying to re-add the VHD, I received:

Failed to open the hard disk /data/files/WS2008/WS08_RTM_x86_EnterpriseVHD.vhd.
Could not get the storage format of the hard disk '/data/files/WS2008/WS08_RTM_x86_EnterpriseVHD.vhd' (VERR_NOT_SUPPORTED).

Result Code: 
VBOX_E_IPRT_ERROR (0x80BB0005)
Component: 
HardDisk
Interface: 
IHardDisk {91648dc6-bb19-46bf-9e1c-4bf5b960c8e2}
Callee: 
IVirtualBox {779264f4-65ed-48ed-be39-518ca549e296}

[aeichner]

The file is not recognised as a valid VHD image anymore it seems. Can you send me the following parts of the image please so I can check what went wrong?

• The last 512 bytes
• The first few Kilobytes

Send the files to Alexander _dot_ Eichner _at_ sun _dot_ com

[Luiz Fabiano Lucena]

I'm having the same here.

Host: Windows 7 Prof (build 7600)

Guest: Windows Server 2003 R2

How can I send that bytes and Kbytes? I don't know what to do to get that... All that I know is that I have so many things installed on that VM, don't wanna even think about re-installing all again...

[pistol_pete77]

Me too.

I have same problem.

Host: Windows 7 Ultimate

Guest: Windows XP-Prof SP3

some fix?

[aeichner]

VirtualBox can repair corrupted VHD images to some extent with a recent release, closing. If there is still a problem with corrupted images please reopen.