I have my sandbox created using vboxmanage cli tool which created vmdk file.
I converted it from .vmdk to .vdi, as i wanted to compress it. then i attached this newly created .vdi file.
Now i want to detach the vmdk file as i don't want it any more. Can you please suggest me what should be the command for the same?
List of my HDDs are:
$ vboxmanage list hdds
UUID: f3b90783-abe7-4549-91aa-39aa6161f103
Parent UUID: base
State: created
Type: normal (base)
Location: /home/ankit/VirtualBox VMs/asr-vm/asr-sandbox-3.5.0-lb1404x64-disk1.vmdk
Storage format: VMDK
Capacity: 65536 MBytes
UUID: 1b9a4eff-f1bd-4c4e-ae48-8f11b8003244
Parent UUID: base
State: created
Type: normal (base)
Location: /home/ankit/VirtualBox VMs/asr-vm/asr-sandbox-3.5.0-lb1404x64-disk1.vdi
Storage format: VDI
Capacity: 65536 MBytes
As briefly mentioned in Section 1.18, “Alternative Front-Ends”, VBoxManage is the command-line interface to Oracle VM VirtualBox. With it, you can completely control Oracle VM VirtualBox from the command line of your host operating system.
VBoxManage.exe is a file in the root directory of the VirtualBox installation on Windows. You find it under C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox by default. Start by opening a new command prompt window and navigating to the VirtualBox folder.
the solution for this is to attach that medium
with emptydrive
or none
. that means for that particular port
and device
you are attaching an emptydrive
or none
.
vboxmanage storageattach "asr-vm" --storagectl "SATA" --port 1 --medium none
or
vboxmanage storageattach "asr-vm" --storagectl "SATA" --port 1 --medium emptydrive
As per docs medium none
is a better option.
For anyone wondering why none
is a better option than emptydrive
for the --medium
flag, the VboxManage docs have this to say:
--medium
Specifies what is to be attached. The following values are supported:
- none: Any existing device should be removed from the given slot.
- emptydrive: For a virtual DVD or floppy drive only, this makes the device slot behave like a removeable drive into which no media has been inserted.
So given we want to detach (or "remove" it), none
seems like the correct option.
Source: https://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch08.html#vboxmanage-storageattach
This is a reponse to Mehrdad Hedayati comment to the accepted answer.
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