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thayer

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From: Vancouver, BC

Registered: 2007-05-20

Posts: 1,560

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How the heck do I clone a VirtualBox image?

I'm running VirtualBox PUEL under GNOME and I've created a base installation of Arch that I would like to keep as a master image and then use it as a starting point for more arch-based images.  Is there an easy way to make a second copy of this image?  I've searched the VirtualBox forums and found a couple of solutions, neither of which have worked, for example:

VBoxManage clonevdi SourceImage.vdi TargetImage.vdi

and

VBoxManage clonevdi /full/path/to/SourceImage.vdi /full/path/to/TargetImage.vdi

Both of which give me this error:

[!] FAILED calling hardDisk->CloneToImage(Bstr(argv[1]), vdiOut.asOutParam(), progress.asOutParam()) at line 2322!
[!] Primary RC  = 0x80004004
[!] Full error info present: false, basic error info present: false

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bakaohki

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Registered: 2007-02-01

Posts: 11

Re: How the heck do I clone a VirtualBox image?

here's how I do it: VBoxManage clonevdi soure.vdi target.vdi

I know it does not help too much, but it works on Ubuntu so that's the right way; I did not use VBox under Arch for quite a time.

thayer

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From: Vancouver, BC

Registered: 2007-05-20

Posts: 1,560

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Re: How the heck do I clone a VirtualBox image?

here's how I do it: VBoxManage clonevdi soure.vdi target.vdi

I know it does not help too much, but it works on Ubuntu so that's the right way; I did not use VBox under Arch for quite a time.

You're right, it doesn't really help, but thanks for letting me know that command actually works for you

I may rebuild VB and see that addresses the error messages.

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thayer williams ~ thayerwilliams.ca