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...

score 41 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 28 '14 at 16:33

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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 '14 at 16:33

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VBoxManage list hdds its better in this case – Topera May 07 '15 at 21:45

score 41 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 21 '11 at 15:32

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Run VBoxManage and pass it showhdinfo and your VDI:

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

answered Mar 21 '11 at 15:32

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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! – RDT2 Jun 15 '14 at 18:25
shows "cannot get format..." probably corrupted. any clue about how can this be recovered? – parasrish Apr 10 '18 at 05:16

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Nov 17 '22 at 19:59

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>

How to check the uuid of a virtualbox vdi?

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