VirtualBox Config Workaround

Mads Klinkby — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 14:51:39 +0000

I have been having some trouble with VirtualBox since I upgraded some time ago. Every time I close a VM VirtualBox places an invalid character (for an XML-parser anyway) in the config file, rendering the file unreadable for VirtualBox the next time I want to start it.
So I did this naïve Python script to fix it.

filename = "/home/user/VirtualBox VMs/MyMachine/MyMachine.vbox" 
istr = '"/VirtualBox/GuestAdd/VersionEx"'
jstr = 'value="'
kstr = '"'

fi = open(filename)
s = fi.read()
fi.close()

i = s.index(istr) + len(istr)
j = s.index(jstr, i) + len(jstr)
k = s.index(kstr, j)
t = s[:j] + s[k:]

fi = open(filename, "w+")
fi.write(t)
fi.close()

Mythbuntu ate my Windows

Mads Klinkby — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 08:30:59 +0000

Using my notebook I installed Mythbuntu 8.10 on an external USB harddisk, as I wanted to see how MythTV compares to WMC on my HTPC.

For some reason (only known to Mythbuntu developers) the installer also also decided to write a GRUB boot loader on the internal harddrive, on which I had HP Drive Encryption enabled.

Goodbye Windows. R.I.P.

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VirtualBox Config Workaround

Mythbuntu ate my Windows