How to check the uuid of a virtualbox vdi?

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How can I check the uuid of a vdi or vmdk?

There should be some command line on VBoxManage to show it.

I know I read it some place in the docs, but now for some reason I can't find it...

Chris Haas · Accepted Answer · 2011-03-21 15:32:06Z

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Run VBoxManage and pass it showhdinfo and your VDI:

VBoxManage.exe showhdinfo "c:\MyMachine.vdi"

answered Mar 21, 2011 at 15:32

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RDT2 Over a year ago

For the record, I learned today this will also register the VDI if it wasn't already registered. This was great as I had just rebuilt my host machine after a crash and had to setup virtualbox all over again. I couldn't figure out how to register them, so I used this command to get the UUID so I could find the right VDI that I was missing and as a by product it registered it for me!

parasrish Over a year ago

shows "cannot get format..." probably corrupted. any clue about how can this be recovered?

David T · Accepted Answer · 2014-09-28 16:33:32Z

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VBoxManage list vms will list the virtual machines and their uuids without having to know the path to the particular vdi.

answered Sep 28, 2014 at 16:33

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Topera Over a year ago

VBoxManage list hdds its better in this case

Lemmings19 · Accepted Answer · 2022-11-17 19:59:29Z

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You can open C:\Users\username\.VirtualBox\VirtualBox.xml for .vbox files:

<VirtualBox>
  <Global>
    <MachineRegistry>
      <MachineEntry uuid="{11111111-1111-1111-1111-111111111111}" src="C:/mybox.vbox"/>
    </MachineRegistry>
  </Global>
</VirtualBox>

answered Nov 17, 2022 at 19:59

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