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Kalle Richter
Asked: 2017-11-16 13:38:56 +0800 CST

Why does my VirtualBox VM not appear in VBoxManage list vms, but re-creation fails

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I created a VirtualBox VM FreeBSD-11.1-amd64 with /usr/lib/virtualbox/VBoxManage createvm --name FreeBSD-11.1-amd64 which was successful according to the output

Virtual machine 'FreeBSD-11.1-amd64' is created.
UUID: c71b2a99-6d87-460e-98ab-6baa2db94e54
Settings file: '/root/VirtualBox VMs/FreeBSD-11.1-amd64/FreeBSD-11.1-amd64.vbox'

However /usr/lib/virtualbox/VBoxManage list vms's output is empty, but running the creation command above again fails because the VM already exists.

Afaik this only makes sense if the created VM was a cat.

I'm working inside a headless docker instance of ubuntu:artful on Ubuntu 17.10.

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1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    From my tests you missed the --register option when creating it, so your command aught to have been:

     VBoxManage createvm --name "FreeBSD-11.1-amd64" --register

    With that a VBoxManage list vms would have shown that vm. To fix that error register it with this command:

     VBoxManage registervm /path/to/file/FreeBSD-11.1-amd64.vbox

    Now run VBoxManage list vms to ensure its now seen by Virtualbox

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