VERR_VD_VMDK_INVALID_HEADER in virtualbox after hard reset

I had to hard reset my notebook after my system (Ubuntu gnome 15.04) freezes. Now I'm not able to resume the vagrant and if I try to load it on virtualbox I receive this message:

Could not open the medium '/home/stsmuniz/VirtualBox VMs/vagrant_default_1441759013197_1623/box-disk1.vmdk'.
VMDK: inconsistency between grain table and backup grain table in '/home/stsmuniz/VirtualBox VMs/vagrant_default_1441759013197_1623/box-disk1.vmdk' (VERR_VD_VMDK_INVALID_HEADER).
VD: error VERR_VD_VMDK_INVALID_HEADER opening image file '/home/stsmuniz/VirtualBox VMs/vagrant_default_1441759013197_1623/box-disk1.vmdk' (VERR_VD_VMDK_INVALID_HEADER).


Código de Resultado: 
NS_ERROR_FAILURE (0x80004005)
Componente:
MediumWrap
Interface: 
IMedium {4afe423b-43e0-e9d0-82e8-ceb307940dda}

Can anybody help me on solving this?

Salustiano Muniz

Posted 2015-09-22T22:41:07.973

Reputation: 33

Answers

This is a problem with a corrupt vmdk disk. It is discussed briefly on the Whonix troubleshooting page.

To fix it, the idea is to convert the vmdk disk into a vdi disk, unmount the old vmdk disk from the VM and attach in its stead the newly minted vdi disk.

Tools to do that are discussed here and here.

MariusMatutiae

Posted 2015-09-22T22:41:07.973

Reputation: 41 321

I did the steps shown here and after converting the box to VDI it worked.

Thank you, buddy.

– Salustiano Muniz – 2015-09-23T14:30:47.423

-1

I had the same issue on macos x sierra running vagrant ubuntu box. it happend when the guest box was frozen due to pg_restore process

had to download the homebrew then install qemu using brew

and followed the instructions on

https://ubuntu-tutorials.com/2009/03/22/how-to-convert-vmware-image-vmdk-to-virtualbox-image-vdi/

then edit the vbox file to change the uuid and location to point to the newly created vdi file

Murad Jamal

Posted 2015-09-22T22:41:07.973

Reputation: 1

Please quote the essential parts of the answer from the reference link(s), as the answer can become invalid if the linked page(s) change. – DavidPostill – 2017-01-26T09:35:55.850