Friday, April 27, 2012

how to change the uuid of virtual box hard disk


the command to change the uuid of virtual box harddisk

C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox>VBoxManage internalcommands sethduuid I:\Virt
ualMachines\oel\oel.vdi
UUID changed to: f88d1843-79f9-4482-8111-cb17ea1ad861

many times you try to use your existing hard disk vdi file to create a new machine and run into a error
A hard disk with UUID xxxxx or with the same properties  xxxx is already registered. 


the above command fixes the problem in the latest version of virtual box 4.1.10

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