Here’s an issue I have faced multiple times and have finally able to find a reasonable resolution.
For the moment, it seems to be working and only time will tell as other predominant solutions on WWW did not work for me.
VBox version:
D:\VirtualBox>VBoxManage -version 6.0.4r128413 D:\VirtualBox>
Start VM failed after shutdown:
[oracle@racnode-dc2-1 dbca]$ logout
[vagrant@racnode-dc2-1 ~]$ logout
Connection to 127.0.0.1 closed.
dinh@CMWPHV1 MINGW64 /d/Vagrant2/vagrant-vbox-rac (master)
$ vagrant halt
==> racnode-dc2-1: Attempting graceful shutdown of VM...
==> racnode-dc2-1: Forcing shutdown of VM...
==> racnode-dc2-2: Unpausing the VM...
==> racnode-dc2-2: Attempting graceful shutdown of VM...
==> racnode-dc2-2: Forcing shutdown of VM...
dinh@CMWPHV1 MINGW64 /d/Vagrant2/vagrant-vbox-rac (master)
$ vagrant up
There was an error while executing `VBoxManage`, a CLI used by Vagrant
for controlling VirtualBox. The command and stderr is shown below.
Command: ["showvminfo", "1d72cea4-f728-44d4-b69e-b2dd45064969"]
Stderr: VBoxManage.exe: error: Failed to create the VirtualBox object!
VBoxManage.exe: error: Cannot register the hard disk 'D:\VirtualBoxVM\vbox-rac-dc2\racnode-dc2-2\packer-ol75-disk001.vmdk' {b507fc35-1c3c-46ab-9e0e-91f192c5b935} because a hard disk 'D:\VirtualBoxVM\vbox-rac-dc2\racnode-dc2-2\packer-ol75-disk001.vmdk' with UUID {c748d54e-3cd2-4087-82dd-65324f4365f7} already exists
VBoxManage.exe: error: Details: code E_INVALIDARG (0x80070057), component VirtualBoxWrap, interface IVirtualBox
dinh@CMWPHV1 MINGW64 /d/Vagrant2/vagrant-vbox-rac (master)
$ vagrant status
There was an error while executing `VBoxManage`, a CLI used by Vagrant
for controlling VirtualBox. The command and stderr is shown below.
Command: ["showvminfo", "1d72cea4-f728-44d4-b69e-b2dd45064969"]
Stderr: VBoxManage.exe: error: Failed to create the VirtualBox object!
VBoxManage.exe: error: Cannot register the hard disk 'D:\VirtualBoxVM\vbox-rac-dc2\racnode-dc2-2\packer-ol75-disk001.vmdk' {b507fc35-1c3c-46ab-9e0e-91f192c5b935} because a hard disk 'D:\VirtualBoxVM\vbox-rac-dc2\racnode-dc2-2\packer-ol75-disk001.vmdk' with UUID {c748d54e-3cd2-4087-82dd-65324f4365f7} already exists
VBoxManage.exe: error: Details: code E_INVALIDARG (0x80070057), component VirtualBoxWrap, interface IVirtualBox
dinh@CMWPHV1 MINGW64 /d/Vagrant2/vagrant-vbox-rac (master)
$
VBoxManage internalcommands sethduuid / clonevdi failed:
D:\VirtualBox>VBoxManage.exe internalcommands sethduuid "D:\VirtualBoxVM\vbox-rac-dc2\racnode-dc2-2\packer-ol75-disk001.vmdk"
VBoxManage.exe: error: Failed to create the VirtualBox object!
VBoxManage.exe: error: Cannot register the hard disk 'D:\VirtualBoxVM\vbox-rac-dc2\racnode-dc2-2\packer-ol75-disk001.vmdk' {b507fc35
-1c3c-46ab-9e0e-91f192c5b935} because a hard disk 'D:\VirtualBoxVM\vbox-rac-dc2\racnode-dc2-2\packer-ol75-disk001.vmdk' with UUID {c748d54e-3cd2-4087-82dd-65324f4365f7} already exists
VBoxManage.exe: error: Details: code E_INVALIDARG (0x80070057), component VirtualBoxWrap, interface IVirtualBox
D:\VirtualBox>VBoxManage clonevdi "D:\VirtualBoxVM\vbox-rac-dc2\racnode-dc2-2\packer-ol75-disk001.vmdk" "D:\VirtualBoxVM\vbox-rac-dc
2\racnode-dc2-2\packer-ol75-disk002.vmdk"
VBoxManage.exe: error: Failed to create the VirtualBox object!
VBoxManage.exe: error: Cannot register the hard disk 'D:\VirtualBoxVM\vbox-rac-dc2\racnode-dc2-2\packer-ol75-disk001.vmdk' {b507fc35
-1c3c-46ab-9e0e-91f192c5b935} because a hard disk 'D:\VirtualBoxVM\vbox-rac-dc2\racnode-dc2-2\packer-ol75-disk001.vmdk' with UUID {c
748d54e-3cd2-4087-82dd-65324f4365f7} already exists
VBoxManage.exe: error: Details: code E_INVALIDARG (0x80070057), component VirtualBoxWrap, interface IVirtualBox
D:\VirtualBox>
Check c748d54e-3cd2-4087-82dd-65324f4365f7 exists in VirtualBox.xml and VirtualBox.xml-prev:
dinh@CMWPHV1 MINGW64 ~/.VirtualBox
$ grep c748d54e-3cd2-4087-82dd-65324f4365f7 *
VBoxSVC.log:00:00:00.390000 ERROR [COM]: aRC=E_INVALIDARG (0x80070057) aIID={d0a0163f-e254-4e5b-a1f2-011cf991c38d} aComponent={VirtualBoxWrap} aText={Cannot register the hard disk 'D:\VirtualBoxVM\vbox-rac-dc2\racnode-dc2-2\packer-ol75-disk001.vmdk' {b507fc35-1c3c-46ab-9e0e-91f192c5b935} because a hard disk 'D:\VirtualBoxVM\vbox-rac-dc2\racnode-dc2-2\packer-ol75-disk001.vmdk' with UUID {c748d54e-3cd2-4087-82dd-65324f4365f7} already exists}, preserve=false aResultDetail=0
VBoxSVC.log.1:00:00:00.376400 ERROR [COM]: aRC=E_INVALIDARG (0x80070057) aIID={d0a0163f-e254-4e5b-a1f2-011cf991c38d} aComponent={VirtualBoxWrap} aText={Cannot register the hard disk 'D:\VirtualBoxVM\vbox-rac-dc2\racnode-dc2-2\packer-ol75-disk001.vmdk' {b507fc35-1c3c-46ab-9e0e-91f192c5b935} because a hard disk 'D:\VirtualBoxVM\vbox-rac-dc2\racnode-dc2-2\packer-ol75-disk001.vmdk' with UUID {c748d54e-3cd2-4087-82dd-65324f4365f7} already exists}, preserve=false aResultDetail=0
VBoxSVC.log.2:00:00:00.391000 ERROR [COM]: aRC=E_INVALIDARG (0x80070057) aIID={d0a0163f-e254-4e5b-a1f2-011cf991c38d} aComponent={VirtualBoxWrap} aText={Cannot register the hard disk 'D:\VirtualBoxVM\vbox-rac-dc2\racnode-dc2-2\packer-ol75-disk001.vmdk' {b507fc35-1c3c-46ab-9e0e-91f192c5b935} because a hard disk 'D:\VirtualBoxVM\vbox-rac-dc2\racnode-dc2-2\packer-ol75-disk001.vmdk' with UUID {c748d54e-3cd2-4087-82dd-65324f4365f7} already exists}, preserve=false aResultDetail=0
VBoxSVC.log.3:00:00:00.390000 ERROR [COM]: aRC=E_INVALIDARG (0x80070057) aIID={d0a0163f-e254-4e5b-a1f2-011cf991c38d} aComponent={VirtualBoxWrap} aText={Cannot register the hard disk 'D:\VirtualBoxVM\vbox-rac-dc2\racnode-dc2-2\packer-ol75-disk001.vmdk' {b507fc35-1c3c-46ab-9e0e-91f192c5b935} because a hard disk 'D:\VirtualBoxVM\vbox-rac-dc2\racnode-dc2-2\packer-ol75-disk001.vmdk' with UUID {c748d54e-3cd2-4087-82dd-65324f4365f7} already exists}, preserve=false aResultDetail=0
VBoxSVC.log.4:00:00:00.374400 ERROR [COM]: aRC=E_INVALIDARG (0x80070057) aIID={d0a0163f-e254-4e5b-a1f2-011cf991c38d} aComponent={VirtualBoxWrap} aText={Cannot register the hard disk 'D:\VirtualBoxVM\vbox-rac-dc2\racnode-dc2-2\packer-ol75-disk001.vmdk' {b507fc35-1c3c-46ab-9e0e-91f192c5b935} because a hard disk 'D:\VirtualBoxVM\vbox-rac-dc2\racnode-dc2-2\packer-ol75-disk001.vmdk' with UUID {c748d54e-3cd2-4087-82dd-65324f4365f7} already exists}, preserve=false aResultDetail=0
VBoxSVC.log.5:00:00:00.374400 ERROR [COM]: aRC=E_INVALIDARG (0x80070057) aIID={d0a0163f-e254-4e5b-a1f2-011cf991c38d} aComponent={VirtualBoxWrap} aText={Cannot register the hard disk 'D:\VirtualBoxVM\vbox-rac-dc2\racnode-dc2-2\packer-ol75-disk001.vmdk' {b507fc35-1c3c-46ab-9e0e-91f192c5b935} because a hard disk 'D:\VirtualBoxVM\vbox-rac-dc2\racnode-dc2-2\packer-ol75-disk001.vmdk' with UUID {c748d54e-3cd2-4087-82dd-65324f4365f7} already exists}, preserve=false aResultDetail=0
VBoxSVC.log.6:00:00:00.436800 ERROR [COM]: aRC=E_INVALIDARG (0x80070057) aIID={d0a0163f-e254-4e5b-a1f2-011cf991c38d} aComponent={VirtualBoxWrap} aText={Cannot register the hard disk 'D:\VirtualBoxVM\vbox-rac-dc2\racnode-dc2-2\packer-ol75-disk001.vmdk' {b507fc35-1c3c-46ab-9e0e-91f192c5b935} because a hard disk 'D:\VirtualBoxVM\vbox-rac-dc2\racnode-dc2-2\packer-ol75-disk001.vmdk' with UUID {c748d54e-3cd2-4087-82dd-65324f4365f7} already exists}, preserve=false aResultDetail=0
VirtualBox.xml: <HardDisk uuid="{c748d54e-3cd2-4087-82dd-65324f4365f7}" location="D:/VirtualBoxVM/vbox-rac-dc2/racnode-dc2-2/packer-ol75-disk001.vmdk" format="VMDK" type="Normal">
VirtualBox.xml-prev: <HardDisk uuid="{c748d54e-3cd2-4087-82dd-65324f4365f7}" location="D:/VirtualBoxVM/vbox-rac-dc2/racnode-dc2-2/packer-ol75-disk001.vmdk" format="VMDK" type="Normal">
dinh@CMWPHV1 MINGW64 ~/.VirtualBox
$
Remove entry from VirtualBox.xml:
dinh@CMWPHV1 MINGW64 ~/.VirtualBox
$ grep c748d54e-3cd2-4087-82dd-65324f4365f7 *
VBoxSVC.log.2:00:00:00.391000 ERROR [COM]: aRC=E_INVALIDARG (0x80070057) aIID={d0a0163f-e254-4e5b-a1f2-011cf991c38d} aComponent={VirtualBoxWrap} aText={Cannot register the hard disk 'D:\VirtualBoxVM\vbox-rac-dc2\racnode-dc2-2\packer-ol75-disk001.vmdk' {b507fc35-1c3c-46ab-9e0e-91f192c5b935} because a hard disk 'D:\VirtualBoxVM\vbox-rac-dc2\racnode-dc2-2\packer-ol75-disk001.vmdk' with UUID {c748d54e-3cd2-4087-82dd-65324f4365f7} already exists}, preserve=false aResultDetail=0
VBoxSVC.log.3:00:00:00.390000 ERROR [COM]: aRC=E_INVALIDARG (0x80070057) aIID={d0a0163f-e254-4e5b-a1f2-011cf991c38d} aComponent={VirtualBoxWrap} aText={Cannot register the hard disk 'D:\VirtualBoxVM\vbox-rac-dc2\racnode-dc2-2\packer-ol75-disk001.vmdk' {b507fc35-1c3c-46ab-9e0e-91f192c5b935} because a hard disk 'D:\VirtualBoxVM\vbox-rac-dc2\racnode-dc2-2\packer-ol75-disk001.vmdk' with UUID {c748d54e-3cd2-4087-82dd-65324f4365f7} already exists}, preserve=false aResultDetail=0
VBoxSVC.log.4:00:00:00.376400 ERROR [COM]: aRC=E_INVALIDARG (0x80070057) aIID={d0a0163f-e254-4e5b-a1f2-011cf991c38d} aComponent={VirtualBoxWrap} aText={Cannot register the hard disk 'D:\VirtualBoxVM\vbox-rac-dc2\racnode-dc2-2\packer-ol75-disk001.vmdk' {b507fc35-1c3c-46ab-9e0e-91f192c5b935} because a hard disk 'D:\VirtualBoxVM\vbox-rac-dc2\racnode-dc2-2\packer-ol75-disk001.vmdk' with UUID {c748d54e-3cd2-4087-82dd-65324f4365f7} already exists}, preserve=false aResultDetail=0
VBoxSVC.log.5:00:00:00.391000 ERROR [COM]: aRC=E_INVALIDARG (0x80070057) aIID={d0a0163f-e254-4e5b-a1f2-011cf991c38d} aComponent={VirtualBoxWrap} aText={Cannot register the hard disk 'D:\VirtualBoxVM\vbox-rac-dc2\racnode-dc2-2\packer-ol75-disk001.vmdk' {b507fc35-1c3c-46ab-9e0e-91f192c5b935} because a hard disk 'D:\VirtualBoxVM\vbox-rac-dc2\racnode-dc2-2\packer-ol75-disk001.vmdk' with UUID {c748d54e-3cd2-4087-82dd-65324f4365f7} already exists}, preserve=false aResultDetail=0
VBoxSVC.log.6:00:00:00.390000 ERROR [COM]: aRC=E_INVALIDARG (0x80070057) aIID={d0a0163f-e254-4e5b-a1f2-011cf991c38d} aComponent={VirtualBoxWrap} aText={Cannot register the hard disk 'D:\VirtualBoxVM\vbox-rac-dc2\racnode-dc2-2\packer-ol75-disk001.vmdk' {b507fc35-1c3c-46ab-9e0e-91f192c5b935} because a hard disk 'D:\VirtualBoxVM\vbox-rac-dc2\racnode-dc2-2\packer-ol75-disk001.vmdk' with UUID {c748d54e-3cd2-4087-82dd-65324f4365f7} already exists}, preserve=false aResultDetail=0
VBoxSVC.log.7:00:00:00.374400 ERROR [COM]: aRC=E_INVALIDARG (0x80070057) aIID={d0a0163f-e254-4e5b-a1f2-011cf991c38d} aComponent={VirtualBoxWrap} aText={Cannot register the hard disk 'D:\VirtualBoxVM\vbox-rac-dc2\racnode-dc2-2\packer-ol75-disk001.vmdk' {b507fc35-1c3c-46ab-9e0e-91f192c5b935} because a hard disk 'D:\VirtualBoxVM\vbox-rac-dc2\racnode-dc2-2\packer-ol75-disk001.vmdk' with UUID {c748d54e-3cd2-4087-82dd-65324f4365f7} already exists}, preserve=false aResultDetail=0
VBoxSVC.log.8:00:00:00.374400 ERROR [COM]: aRC=E_INVALIDARG (0x80070057) aIID={d0a0163f-e254-4e5b-a1f2-011cf991c38d} aComponent={VirtualBoxWrap} aText={Cannot register the hard disk 'D:\VirtualBoxVM\vbox-rac-dc2\racnode-dc2-2\packer-ol75-disk001.vmdk' {b507fc35-1c3c-46ab-9e0e-91f192c5b935} because a hard disk 'D:\VirtualBoxVM\vbox-rac-dc2\racnode-dc2-2\packer-ol75-disk001.vmdk' with UUID {c748d54e-3cd2-4087-82dd-65324f4365f7} already exists}, preserve=false aResultDetail=0
VBoxSVC.log.9:00:00:00.436800 ERROR [COM]: aRC=E_INVALIDARG (0x80070057) aIID={d0a0163f-e254-4e5b-a1f2-011cf991c38d} aComponent={VirtualBoxWrap} aText={Cannot register the hard disk 'D:\VirtualBoxVM\vbox-rac-dc2\racnode-dc2-2\packer-ol75-disk001.vmdk' {b507fc35-1c3c-46ab-9e0e-91f192c5b935} because a hard disk 'D:\VirtualBoxVM\vbox-rac-dc2\racnode-dc2-2\packer-ol75-disk001.vmdk' with UUID {c748d54e-3cd2-4087-82dd-65324f4365f7} already exists}, preserve=false aResultDetail=0
dinh@CMWPHV1 MINGW64 ~/.VirtualBox
$
Start VM:
dinh@CMWPHV1 MINGW64 /d/Vagrant2/vagrant-vbox-rac (master) $ vagrant up Bringing machine 'racnode-dc2-2' up with 'virtualbox' provider... Bringing machine 'racnode-dc2-1' up with 'virtualbox' provider... dinh@CMWPHV1 MINGW64 /d/Vagrant2/vagrant-vbox-rac (master) $ vagrant status Current machine states: racnode-dc2-2 running (virtualbox) racnode-dc2-1 running (virtualbox) This environment represents multiple VMs. The VMs are all listed above with their current state. For more information about a specific VM, run `vagrant status NAME`. dinh@CMWPHV1 MINGW64 /d/Vagrant2/vagrant-vbox-rac (master) $ vagrant ssh racnode-dc2-1 Last login: Wed May 1 14:40:57 2019 from 192.168.7.100 ---------------------------------------- Welcome to racnode-dc2-1 OracleLinux 7.5 x86_64 FQDN: racnode-dc2-1.internal.lab IP's: enp0s3: 10.0.2.15 enp0s8: 192.168.7.100 enp0s9: 172.16.7.10 Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-2640M CPU @ 2.80GHz #CPU's: 2 Memory: 5708 MB Kernel: 4.1.12-112.16.4.el7uek.x86_64 ---------------------------------------- [vagrant@racnode-dc2-1 ~]$ sudo su - oracle Last login: Wed May 1 14:42:47 CEST 2019 [oracle@racnode-dc2-1 ~]$ . /media/patch/gi.env The Oracle base has been set to /u01/app/oracle ORACLE_SID=+ASM1 ORACLE_BASE=/u01/app/oracle GRID_HOME=/u01/app/12.2.0.1/grid ORACLE_HOME=/u01/app/12.2.0.1/grid Oracle Instance alive for sid "+ASM1" [oracle@racnode-dc2-1 ~]$ [oracle@racnode-dc2-1 ~]$ ps -ef|grep [p]mon oracle 17637 1 0 14:42 ? 00:00:00 asm_pmon_+ASM1 oracle 17987 1 0 14:43 ? 00:00:00 ora_pmon_hawk1 [oracle@racnode-dc2-1 ~]$ ssh racnode-dc2-2 Last login: Wed May 1 14:42:24 2019 ---------------------------------------- Welcome to racnode-dc2-2 OracleLinux 7.5 x86_64 FQDN: racnode-dc2-2.internal.lab IP's: enp0s3: 10.0.2.15 enp0s8: 192.168.7.101 enp0s9: 172.16.7.11 Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-2640M CPU @ 2.80GHz #CPU's: 2 Memory: 5708 MB Kernel: 4.1.12-112.16.4.el7uek.x86_64 ---------------------------------------- [oracle@racnode-dc2-2 ~]$ ps -ef|grep pmon oracle 16172 1 0 14:41 ? 00:00:00 asm_pmon_+ASM2 oracle 17229 1 0 14:41 ? 00:00:00 mdb_pmon_-MGMTDB oracle 17368 1 0 14:41 ? 00:00:00 ora_pmon_hawk2 oracle 25901 25533 0 14:46 pts/0 00:00:00 grep --color=auto pmon [oracle@racnode-dc2-2 ~]$
Check packer-ol75-disk001.vmdk from VirtualBox.xml:
dinh@CMWPHV1 MINGW64 ~/.VirtualBox
$ grep packer-ol75-disk001.vmdk VirtualBox.xml
<HardDisk uuid="{b507fc35-1c3c-46ab-9e0e-91f192c5b935}" location="D:/VirtualBoxVM/vbox-rac-dc2/racnode-dc2-2/packer-ol75-disk001.vmdk" format="VMDK" type="Normal"/>
<HardDisk uuid="{1e5667ab-69a7-49fc-aa76-7b6249aba862}" location="D:/VirtualBoxVM/vbox-rac-dc2/racnode-dc2-1/packer-ol75-disk001.vmdk" format="VMDK" type="Normal"/>
dinh@CMWPHV1 MINGW64 ~/.VirtualBox
$
Before and after:
dinh@CMWPHV1 MINGW64 /d/VirtualBoxVM/vbox-rac-dc2/racnode-dc2-2 $ ll total 4566352 drwxr-xr-x 1 dinh 197121 0 Apr 30 20:04 Logs/ -rw-r--r-- 1 dinh 197121 4675928064 May 1 07:54 opacker-ol75-disk001.vmdk -rw-r--r-- 1 dinh 197121 6433 May 1 07:54 racnode-dc2-2.vbox -rw-r--r-- 1 dinh 197121 6433 Apr 30 20:04 racnode-dc2-2.vbox-prev dinh@CMWPHV1 MINGW64 /d/VirtualBoxVM/vbox-rac-dc2/racnode-dc2-2 $ ll total 4768592 drwxr-xr-x 1 dinh 197121 0 May 1 08:38 Logs/ -rw-r--r-- 1 dinh 197121 4883021824 May 1 08:43 packer-ol75-disk001.vmdk -rw-r--r-- 1 dinh 197121 6433 May 1 08:38 racnode-dc2-2.vbox -rw-r--r-- 1 dinh 197121 6433 May 1 08:38 racnode-dc2-2.vbox-prev dinh@CMWPHV1 MINGW64 /d/VirtualBoxVM/vbox-rac-dc2/racnode-dc2-2 $