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Changes between Initial Version and Version 1 of Ticket #17236


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Nov 16, 2017 12:20:34 AM (7 years ago)
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Valery Ushakov
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  • Ticket #17236 – Description

    initial v1  
    55This is Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, virtualbox 5.2.0
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    7 The receipe is
    8 
     7The recipe is
     8{{{
    99RT$ dd if=/dev/zero of=yo.raw bs=1 seek=1073741824 count=1     
    10101+0 records in
     
    1414RT$ vboxmanage internalcommands createrawvmdk -filename yo.vmdk -rawdisk yo.raw
    1515Memory fault(coredump)
    16 
     16}}}
    1717It took me a little while to discover I kinda goofed on the sparse file creation, my intent was to create a 1 Gb file, while I created here a 1Gb +1 byte sparse file.
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    2020
    2121The workaround is to create the the sparse file correctly
    22 
     22{{{
    2323RT$ dd if=/dev/zero of=yo.raw bs=1 seek=1073741823 count=1                     
    24241+0 records in
     
    2727
    2828RT$ vboxmanage internalcommands createrawvmdk -filename yo.vmdk -rawdisk yo.raw
    29 RAW host disk access VMDK file yo.vmdk created successfully.
    30 
    31 RT$
    32 
     29RAW host disk access VMDK file yo.vmdk created successfully.
     30}}}
    3331I flag this as 'low prio' as there is a work around.
    3432
    3533Cheers,
    3634Phi
    37 

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