id summary reporter owner description type status component version resolution keywords cc guest host 7045 Can't boot guest Linux on the second physical disk. Liu, Xinyun "virtualbox: 3.2.4 After create vmdk file, the Ubuntu failed to boot. I tried two disk, one is the whole disk, the other is that with some partitions. Both failed. to create and register vmdk for the physical disk {{{ C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox>VBoxManage.exe internalcommands listpartitions -rawdisk \.\PhysicalDrive0 Oracle VM VirtualBox Command Line Management Interface Version 3.2.4 (C) 2005-2010 Oracle Corporation All rights reserved. Number Type StartCHS EndCHS Size (MiB) Start (Sect) 1 0x07 1 /0 /1 1023/239/63 76308 15120 C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox>VBoxManage.exe internalcommands listpartitions -rawdisk \.\PhysicalDrive1 Oracle VM VirtualBox Command Line Management Interface Version 3.2.4 (C) 2005-2010 Oracle Corporation All rights reserved. Number Type StartCHS EndCHS Size (MiB) Start (Sect) 1 0x83 0 /32 /33 1023/254/63 11443 2048 5 0x83 1023/254/63 1023/254/63 12397 23439360 6 0x82 1023/254/63 1023/254/63 3905 48830464 7 0x83 1023/254/63 1023/254/63 11443 56829952 8 0x83 1023/254/63 1023/254/63 266052 80267264 C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox>VBoxManage.exe internalcommands createrawvmdk -filename c:\vms\t400\sdb.vmdk -rawdisk \.\PhysicalDrive1 -register Oracle VM VirtualBox Command Line Management Interface Version 3.2.4 (C) 2005-2010 Oracle Corporation All rights reserved. RAW host disk access VMDK file c:\vms\t400\sdb.vmdk created successfully. C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox>VBoxManage.exe internalcommands createrawvmdk -filename c:\vms\t400\sdb.vmdk -rawdisk \.\PhysicalDrive1 -register Oracle VM VirtualBox Command Line Management Interface Version 3.2.4 (C) 2005-2010 Oracle Corporation All rights reserved. RAW host disk access VMDK file c:\vms\t400\sdb.vmdk created successfully. C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox>VBoxManage.exe internalcommands createrawvmdk -filename c:\vms\t400\sdbp.vmdk -rawdisk \.\PhysicalDrive1 -partitions 1,5,6,7 ,8 -register Oracle VM VirtualBox Command Line Management Interface Version 3.2.4 (C) 2005-2010 Oracle Corporation All rights reserved. RAW host disk access VMDK file c:\vms\t400\sdbp.vmdk created successfully. C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox> }}} log with sdb.vmdk {{{ t400-2010-06-23-00-14-36.log }}} log with sdbp.vmdk {{{ t400-2010-06-23-00-15-28.log }}} " defect closed virtual disk VirtualBox 3.2.4 fixed Linux Windows