sata rawdisk not working anymore with virtualbox 2.0

[seraphim]

hello,

after upgrade to vb2.0 the sata drive is not working.
i have to set the disk back to ide.

bug or missconfiguration ?

greetings

[frank]

What does that mean not working?

[TerryE]

Seraphim, Welcome to the forum. Unfortunately your post contains so little information that it is no use to us or to you in getting help to resolve or work around your issues. Have a look the Forum Posting Guide for help in framing Qs. What we need is enough hard detail to be able to give you an informed response.

[ctucker50]

I have the same problem. When my VMDK raw disk is set to SATA, I get the following error:

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Unknown error creating VM.
VBox status code: -2 (VERR_INVALID_PARAMETER).

Result Code: 
NS_ERROR_FAILURE (0x80004005)
Component: 
Console
Interface: 
IConsole {d5a1cbda-f5d7-4824-9afe-d640c94c7dcf}

I tried recreating the VMDK file and even creating a new machine but it all fails.

[yeahfeng]

I encountered also the same problem. I'm running virtualBox on Windows Host.

[TerryE]

ctucker, maybe you should raise a ticket. See the Forum FAQ for how to raise a ticket.

[vkov_tinsky]

I get the same error code as ctucker50. (VirtualBox 2.0.0, SATA, Ubuntu 8.04 i686).

Also when I tried to re-create the vmdk VBoxManage seemed to crash:

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vt@vtbox:~$ sudo VBoxManage internalcommands createrawvmdk -filename xpraw.vmdk -rawdisk /dev/sdb -partitions 1,2 -relative
VirtualBox Command Line Management Interface Version 2.0.0
(C) 2005-2008 Sun Microsystems, Inc.
All rights reserved.

Segmentation fault

(I made sure I have enough permissions for /dev/sdb1 & sdb2.)

Edit: Reverted back to v1.6.6 and SATA raw disk access works fine. Raw vmdk creation also does not produce segmentation fault.

[vkov_tinsky]

Since no one's raised a ticket yet (as far as I can tell from searching on the bug tracker) I'll do it. Just one question: Should I raise a seperate ticket for the VBoxManage crash (see previous post)?

[Sasquatch]

See if you can reproduce that segmentation fault every time, even after some system checks and create a separate ticket. For easy finding, post the link to them here.

[seraphim]

yes, the problem is now well dokumented. sorry for my first post.

i've got the same error like ctucker50.

my system is debian 4.0. i think this is a very importend bug. they wrote about sata improvements for the 2.0 release.

greetings and many thanks for the reactions

[frank]

vkov_tinsky, the segfault you are talking about was identified and will be fixed in 2.0.2.

[vkov_tinsky]

http://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/2182

Regards,
VT

[misterjaytee]

I have the same problem. When my VMDK raw disk is set to SATA, I get the following error:

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Unknown error creating VM.
VBox status code: -2 (VERR_INVALID_PARAMETER).

Result Code: 
NS_ERROR_FAILURE (0x80004005)
Component: 
Console
Interface: 
IConsole {d5a1cbda-f5d7-4824-9afe-d640c94c7dcf}

I tried recreating the VMDK file and even creating a new machine but it all fails.

This happens to me too on Vista x64 Host with XP Guest. Upgraded to VB v2.0.2 and it still happens (tried deleting machine and recreating it, but still fails).

[seraphim]

the bug still exists in 2.0.2 with debian etch kernel 2.6.18-6-686 host and windows guest.

[vkov_tinsky]

the bug still exists in 2.0.2 with debian etch kernel 2.6.18-6-686 host and windows guest.

Just in case it's not clear: The segfault which is fixed in 2.02 has nothing to do with bug #2182.