Change UUID of Vdi in Virtualbox

Making  copy of the .vdi file into another location will make a real copy of the virtual disk, including the UUID of the disk. If this disk is added to  the Virtual Media Manager, you  will get an error like this:

virtualbox-error.png

To chage the UUID of disk use following command

$ VBoxManage internalcommands setvdiuuid /path/to/virtualdisk.vdi
VirtualBox Command Line Management Interface Version 2.2.2
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UUID changed to: 9e89fe14-d010-469e-a737-cd6521889acb

Since the old UUID is change , you can now add this virtual disk to Disk Manager

You need not use this commmad if you use clonevdi function to duplicate the virtual disk image, in the first place. The clonevdi  makes the new disk image with unique UUID.

The syntax of the clonedvi goes like this:

$ VBoxManage clonevdi_Master.vdi Clone.vdi

 

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