Comments on: How-To: Clone or Copy a VirtualBox Virtual Disk

By: Devarishi

Devarishi — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 18:36:16 +0000

The command has changed to “sethduuid” (I am using VirtualBox 4.1.8 version):

C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox>VBoxManage internalcommands sethduuid “C:\CentOSDup.vdi”
UUID changed to: ac3f7a4d-da4f-4077-be7b-4fcac9fd9f88

By: kham

kham — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 07:37:44 +0000

To clone an entire VBox do we have to to the same for all created files ?

By: kham

kham — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 07:36:21 +0000

I’am new to VirtualBox … this is a great post.

Thanks

By: Amir

Amir — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 19:39:06 +0000

Thank you so much. This helped me a lot. cloneHd wasn’t working for whatever reason. But sethduuid worked out. Much quicker!

By: Shah Murad

Shah Murad — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 17:19:14 +0000

This cloneHD command worked perfect!!! Thanks to Nick for the tips and also taking the time to add command line screen shots
Much appreciated!!!
Shah Murad

By: isavel

isavel — Sun, 05 Jun 2011 17:51:34 +0000

thanks, your save me a lot of time!!!

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By: Sean

Sean — Mon, 14 Mar 2011 08:05:49 +0000

My suggestion is to do what Pat said.
Create a txt file
paste the following:
“C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox\VBoxManage” internalcommands sethduuid %1
@pause

Save as .bat

Now u can drag your vdi on to this file and it will reset the uuid :)

By: Mubbasher Khanzada

Mubbasher Khanzada — Sun, 27 Feb 2011 16:09:56 +0000

Hi Nick,
Great post… many thanks for explaining it in very simnple and elegant manner.
I noticed that for cloning the Virtual Drive, the original setvdiuuid specified in your post did not work on my Virtualbox, however replacing it with sethduuid did the job, thought would let others know if original command does not seem to be working.

Thanks again.
Mubbasher.

By: Pat Tormey

Pat Tormey — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 13:15:02 +0000

The command has changed to sethduuid…
recommend building a simple batch file

“C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox\VBoxManage” internalcommands sethduuid “D:

\VirtualBox Machines\NewClone.vdi”