VBoxHeadless - Running Virtual Machines With VirtualBox 4.0 On A Headless Debian Sque

Discussion in 'HOWTO-Related Questions' started by wiseman, Apr 28, 2012.

  1. wiseman

    wiseman New Member

    when ruinng

    administrator@amnesia:~$ VBoxManage storageattach "Debian Squeeze Server" --storagectl "IDE Controller" --port 1 --device 0 --type dvddrive --medium /home/amnesia/debian-6.0.4-i386-netinst.iso
    VBoxManage: error: The medium '/home/amnesia/debian-6.0.4-i386-netinst.iso' can't be used as the requested device type
    VBoxManage: error: Details: code NS_ERROR_FAILURE (0x80004005), component Medium, interface IMedium, callee nsISupports
    Context: "OpenMedium(Bstr(pszFilenameOrUuid).raw(), enmDevType, AccessMode_ReadWrite, fForceNewUuidOnOpen, pMedium.asOutParam())" at line 210 of file VBoxManageDisk.cpp
    VBoxManage: error: Invalid UUID or filename "/home/amnesia/debian-6.0.4-i386-netinst.iso"

    howto make this command ok?

    thanks
     
  2. falko

    falko Super Moderator Howtoforge Staff

    Does /home/amnesia/debian-6.0.4-i386-netinst.iso exist, and is it a valid iso file?
     

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