There are, apparently, two ways to create a clone of the Virtualbox drives. The ‘right’ way and the ‘wrong’ way.
The right way is to use the following:
VBoxManage clonehd <filename> <outputfile>
You can optionally use the UUID as the input filename.
Anyway, the ‘wrong’ way to do it is to make a copy of the .vdi file in the O/S as I did. Then when you try and attach it, it won’t work!
To fix this situation do this:
VBoxManage internalcommands sethduuid <filename>
I have NO idea if this is supported, so try it at your own risk - I copied the backup again to make sure I could rollback.
Tags: backup, change, clone, clonehd, internal, internalcommands, uuid, vboxmanage, vdi, virtualbox
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