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    The document discusses changing the UUID of a VirtualBox virtual disk image (VDI) file after duplicating an existing VDI file in order to reuse it as the basis for a new virtual machine. It notes that simply duplicating the VDI file will cause an error when trying to use the copy due to duplicate UUIDs. It recommends using the VBoxManage internalcommands setvdiuuid or sethduuid command to change the UUID of the copied VDI file so it can be registered and used independently.

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    The document discusses changing the UUID of a VirtualBox virtual disk image (VDI) file after duplicating an existing VDI file in order to reuse it as the basis for a new virtual machine. It notes that simply duplicating the VDI file will cause an error when trying to use the copy due to duplicate UUIDs. It recommends using the VBoxManage internalcommands setvdiuuid or sethduuid command to change the UUID of the copied VDI file so it can be registered and used independently.

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    The document discusses changing the UUID of a VirtualBox virtual disk image (VDI) file after duplicating an existing VDI file in order to reuse it as the basis for a new virtual machine. It notes that simply duplicating the VDI file will cause an error when trying to use the copy due to duplicate UUIDs. It recommends using the VBoxManage internalcommands setvdiuuid or sethduuid command to change the UUID of the copied VDI file so it can be registered and used independently.

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    Change UUID of VirtualBox vdi

    Looking for quick way to reuse a vdi I prepared with Windows XP SP3 and recent updates, I decided to duplicate the vdi with Windows Explorer. Of course, this was too simple. After attempting to create a new virtual machine which used the newly created vdi, I was presented with a nasty error along the lines of Failed to open the hard disk . and Cannot register the hard disk C:\path\to\new\vdi with UUID {xxxx} because a hard disk C:\path\to\old\vdi already exists in the media registry (C:\path to VirtualBox.xml)

    Launch a command prompt and browse to where VBoxManager.exe is located (for me this is C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox) and run the comand below
    VBoxManage.exe internalcommands setvdiuuid "C:\path\to\new\vdi"

    NOTE: the command has been changed to sethduuid in version 4.0.4 (thanks Isaac!). So the command in 4.0.4 would be
    VBoxManage.exe internalcommands sethduuid "C:\path\to\new\vdi"

    Which should return something similar to UUID Changed to

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