Posted: 2/17/2016 7:22:56 PM EDT
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through what sorcery does the VMBox program tell a VM I just created of hostnames from other old and now unused VMs? Im trying to create a VM with a particular hostname that I used before and is now now deleted from the system, but the Ubuntu OS inside the VM is telling me its in use.
I even uninstalled VMBox, removed programfiles/oraclevmbox, also removed users\linkedm4\.vmbox and users\linkedm4\VirtualBoxVMs, and rebooted and reinstalled a different version of VMBox. also searched my Win registry for this hostname, its not there. but still cant use this hostname. just curious, how do they do it? |
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I am not familiar with Virtual Box (ESXi/VSphere/VCenter every day) but as a spitball id say you have a VM directory somewhere that is still carrying the names of the old VMs you deleted (probably as folders or even the virtual disks depending on how you 86'd them) It probably persisted through the uninstall.
Somewhere on your machine there's a record of those VM's. Find it and delete the offending reference. Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile |