I'm receving the following error upon attempting to boot a WinXP raw partition with virtualbox v. 1.5.0 on linux
A disk read error occurred
Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart
Some details on the situation:
Created vmdk file for raw partition with command:
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vboxmanage internalcommands createrawvmdk -rawdisk /dev/sda -partitions 1 -relative -filename /tmp/sda1.vmdk
Created a virtual machine using this vmdk file (after setting all the permissions to rw) and ran it with a winxp setup cd mounted so that I was able to enter a recovery console (note that while doing this I confirmed the raw partition was being read correctly as I was able to view my windows files) and create a windows MBR for the virtual machine.
However, when I restart the virtual machine I get the error above. Any thoughts? I've found a few other posts of similar situations but never a definitive solution.
Thanks