ERROR: No drive attached to device slot 0 on port 1 of controller IDE Controlle

[joseph]

VBoxManage ERROR message, it's seems to be common when using VirtualBox on a Headless Server.

The error message can be described as below:

[vboxuser@admon ~]$ VBoxManage modifyvm windows --dvd "/home/vboxuser/Windows-2003.iso"
Oracle VM VirtualBox Command Line Management Interface Version 3.2.8
(C) 2005-2010 Oracle Corporation
All rights reserved.

ERROR: No drive attached to device slot 0 on port 1 of controller 'IDE Controller'
Details: code VBOX_E_OBJECT_NOT_FOUND (0x80bb0001), component Machine, interface IMachine, callee nsISupports
Context: "MountMedium(Bstr("IDE Controller"), 1, 0, uuid, FALSE )" at line 991 of file VBoxManageModifyVM.cpp

It can be fixed like this:


VBoxManage storagectl windows --name "IDE Controller" --add ide

[joseph]

Or you can specify more detailed info for VBoxManage:

VBoxManage storageattach windows --storagectl "IDE Controller" --port 0 --device 0 --type hdd --medium /media/hdd/VMs/winxp.vdi
VBoxManage storageattach windows --storagectl "IDE Controller" --port 1 --device 0 --type dvddrive --medium /media/hdd/Images/OS/windows-2003.iso