Comments on: Access Physical Disk in VirtualBox- Desktop Virtualization Software

By: Dani

Dani — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 09:19:12 +0000

Thanks for this howto. Thanks to it I can another tutorial about how to install BackTrack 5 in hard drive. If you want to read it: http://www.iniqua.com/2011/11/17/instalando-backtrack-5-en-nuestro-disco-duro-desde-windows/?lang=en

Regards.

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By: david

david — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 17:40:40 +0000

hmm, when i install freebsd, in the partitioning there’s this error:

Error mounting partition /mnt: mount: /dev/ada0a : Invalid argument

i followed the guide and attached the file in the vbox storage manager. any idea? first try to use a physical partition under win7.

By: Justin Buser

Justin Buser — Sun, 07 Aug 2011 07:45:22 +0000

Great post, works perfectly in Windows 7 x64 when the parameters are entered correctly without all the extra spaces you added to the sample command line. Looking through some of the comments about problems people have had however it may have been a better idea to simply tell people to run VBoxManage internalcommands createrawvmdk and mention that it’s located in their VirtualBox installation dir. If someone can’t figure this out based on the output from running the command without the filename param then they probably shouldn’t be trying it anyway.

By: Michele Ferrazzano » Install VirtualBox in a Debian-based Linux distribution

Sat, 04 Jun 2011 14:31:36 +0000

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By: Tommy

Tommy — Sun, 20 Feb 2011 16:07:41 +0000

To anyone who gets massive long errors in their cmd try copy and pasting this. remember to change the user name. mine was spitting out the errors because it couldn’t create the VDI folder. even though i tried running cmd in admin mode. i’m also using Windows 7 Ultimate x64.

VBoxManage internalcommands createrawvmdk -filename c:\Users\[USERNAME]\.Virtualbox\mydrive.vmdk -rawdisk \\.\PhysicalDrive0

the vmdk file you are creating is just a link to the physical drive that the VM can understand since it is specifically designed to not allow any crossover to contain viruses and such. so if you are using a usb you will just have to recreate the vmdk every time you remove and then reconnect your usb.

By: Wouter

Wouter — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 07:19:41 +0000

Please note that it is necessary to start VirtualBox as administrator as well. The problem I have got is that my USB stick changes the PhysicalDiskID every time I reboot and recreating the vmdk file doesn’t work, since the UUID is broken. So every time I have to change the contents of the vmdk file manually. But no worries; this file is small, and easy understandable!

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discos reales con virtual box - psicofxp.com — Sat, 12 Feb 2011 16:32:34 +0000

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By: vmware访问物理硬盘 | Liu Xinyun's Kulakism

vmware访问物理硬盘 | Liu Xinyun's Kulakism — Sat, 12 Feb 2011 13:55:53 +0000

[...] disk的；我的虚拟OS已经生成了，应该可以用virtualbox导进去。或者用 http://www.sysprobs.com/access-physical-disk-virtualbox-desktop-virtualization-software 里介绍的VBoxManage internalcommands createrawvmdk -filename c: Users sunuser .Virtualbox [...]

By: jgarizona

jgarizona — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 18:19:21 +0000

I am running into a issue when trying to attach to the vmdk created on a Win 7 system. The infor is as follows; create usbboot.vmdk using the command

VBoxManage internalcommands createrawvmdk -filename “c:\Users\admin\Virtualbox VMs\USBboot\usbboot.vmdk” -rawdisk \\.\PhysicalDrive5

run from command prompt as administrator.

I tried to “add Hard disk” virtual disk file to the IDE Controller, running VirtualBox as administrator. It gave me the error “failed to open the hard disk C:\users\admin\virtualbox vms\usbboot\usbboot.vmdk The medium C:\users\admin\virtualbox vms\usbboot\usbboot.vmdk cant be used as the requested device type.”

This makes me think there is a different device type i should be using or need to create the vmdk differently. Please let me know what steps I am missing.