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<tt>Hi Jason,<br>
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My error! I was searching within the document UserManual.pdf<br>
for an instance of the command "VBoxManage" in windows context.<br>
I was growing rather impatient when I submitted the question.<br>
Sorry for the spam.<br>
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Cheers,
JD
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Jason Spiro wrote:
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<pre wrap="">2008/2/19, JD <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:jd1008@gmail.com"><jd1008@gmail.com></a> wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Hi Frank, and Dmitry,
In the "unix: world, the VBOX document provides a command line
to create a physical drive vmdk file. That command is:
VBoxManage internalcommands createrawvmdk -filename /path/to/file.vmdk
-rawdisk /dev/sda -register
However, on the Windows version, there is no corresponding command
described in the document, and the GUI does not provide a method
for creating a physical drive vmdk.
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Hi JD,
Which document did you look at? The user manual says "On a Windows
host, instead of the above device specification, use e.g.
\\.\PhysicalDrive0". Is there another document which is missing that
hint?
Although the help file could describe better how to do it on Windows.
For example, it could give a full example command including the
default path to where VBoxManage.exe is located. It could also
mention WinObj which is a tool helpful for figuring out if an external
disk like a USB hard drive might be considered PhysicalDrive0,
PhysicalDrive1, or something else.
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<pre wrap=""> Could you please announce to the whole list how to do this?
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.virtualbox.org/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users">http://www.virtualbox.org/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users</a> would probably
be a better list for that question.
Cheers,
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