Overlapping partition description areas. Aborting

[kintaro77]

I have this issue

My partition table looks fine:

• Disk /dev/sda: 120.0 GB, 120034123776 bytes
  255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14593 cylinders
  Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
  Disk identifier: 0x95aa95aa
  
     Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
  /dev/sda1   *           1        9526    76517563+   7  HPFS/NTFS
  /dev/sda2            9527       10017     3943957+  83  Linux
  /dev/sda3           10018       14593    36756720    f  W95 Ext'd (LBA)
  /dev/sda5           10018       10080      505984+  82  Linux swap / Solaris
  /dev/sda6           10081       11314     9912073+  83  Linux
  /dev/sda7           11315       14593    26338536    7  HPFS/NTFS

and the output even with root and even with user is:

• LucaBrasi:~# VBoxManage internalcommands createrawvmdk -filename /home/ivan/.VirtualBox/Windows.vmdk -rawdisk /dev/sda -partitions 1,7 -mbr /home/ivan/.VirtualBox/Windows.mbr -register -relative
  VirtualBox Command Line Management Interface Version 2.2.0
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  All rights reserved.
  
  Overlapping partition description areas. Aborting
  Error reading the partition information from '/dev/sda'
  The raw disk vmdk file was not created

Prior I was affeted by an "Error while creating the raw disk VMDK: that I solved with fdisk.

Any idea?
Thanks Ivan

[TerryE]

kintaro77, Have you read the previous discussions on this topic? There's a bug in the partition management code which results in it barfing on valid Partition tables where you want to map a second or subsequent logical partition. No fix date has been announced.