Opened 16 years ago
Closed 16 years ago
#4492 closed defect (duplicate)
Unable to create raw vmdk on Mac OSX
| Reported by: | Steven Hamilton | Owned by: | |
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| Component: | other | Version: | VirtualBox 3.0.2 |
| Keywords: | vboxmanage raw boot camp | Cc: | |
| Guest type: | Windows | Host type: | Mac OS X |
Description
vboxmanage is unable to create a rawdisk vmdk file of a full disk or of selected partitions.
e.g. sudo vboxmanage internalcommands createrawvmdk -rawdisk /dev/disk0 -filename win7raw.vmdk irtualBox Command Line Management Interface Version 3.0.2 (C) 2005-2009 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved.
Error while creating the raw disk VMDK: VERR_DEV_IO_ERROR The raw disk vmdk file was not created
listing partitions works ok.
sudo vboxmanage internalcommands listpartitions -rawdisk /dev/disk0 VirtualBox Command Line Management Interface Version 3.0.2 (C) 2005-2009 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved.
Number Type StartCHS EndCHS Size (MiB) Start (Sect) 1 0xee 1023/254/63 1023/254/63 200 1 2 0xaf 1023/254/63 1023/254/63 130944 409640 3 0x07 1023/254/63 1023/254/63 21354 268847104
as does selecting the boot camp partition device itself. This does not allow VBox to boot as the bootloader info is on partition 1.
sudo vboxmanage internalcommands createrawvmdk -rawdisk /dev/disk0s3 -filename win7raw.vmdk
VirtualBox Command Line Management Interface Version 3.0.2 (C) 2005-2009 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved.
RAW host disk access VMDK file win7raw.vmdk created successfully.
Bug has been present since at least v2.2.4. No idea if it's worked before this as other users have worked around it using VMWare.
Sorry. Report above with better formatting.
vboxmanage is unable to create a rawdisk vmdk file of a full disk or of selected partitions.
listing partitions works ok.
as does selecting the boot camp partition device itself. This does not allow VBox to boot as the bootloader info is on partition 1.
Bug has been present since at least v2.2.4. No idea if it's worked before this as other users have worked around it using VMWare.