How to check the uuid of a virtualbox vdi?

Question

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...

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Answer 1

Run VBoxManage and pass it showhdinfo and your VDI:

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

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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! – Tunnell

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

Answer 2

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

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VBoxManage list hdds its better in this case – Dowie

Answer 3

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>

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