Assign new UUID

[Atmostrophic]

Hello. Just wanted to submit a feature-request... I've created a new virtual drive and installed WinXP on it. This works fine until here. But if i want to create a copy of the virtual-drive file to use it on another virtual pc, i cannot add both of the images to the VirtualBox, because "a drive with the same UUID has already been added".

I tried this because i wanted to use this image as base for multiple virtual computers, therefore i need to copy the file to be able to use it multiple times and to add different installations to each of the specific base-images.

Thanks and best regards Atmostrophic

[Michael Thayer]

Use 'VBoxManage clonevdi'.

[jack]

If clonevdi still worked, then maybe setting this request to invalid would have been appropriate. However, as of version 2.1 it is broken, and this would be a good function for those inclined to help themselves. Fortunately there is another way:

thanks to mpack ​http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?t=12369&sid=bc16b6a91055d0883b1b4447efa2a96f VBoxManage internalcommands setvdiuuid file.vdi

this will change the uuid and print it out.