3.0.0beta2: ->raw partitions... problems....
Posted: 26. Jun 2009, 17:17
hi
beta2 of3.0.0 seems to run well.
I'm a fan on accessing on pysical hard disks (just only a partition). it means (for me) speedful access directly onto harddisk.
[was very well installed on SLES10 with vb2.x.x; but times are changing; just now SLES11 with beta2 3.0.0 ]
following doesn't work. could somebody help?
thanks a lot. [actual pdf is fully printed ]
my steps:
xseries346:~ # VBoxManage internalcommands createrawvmdk -filename /mnt/vb/wxp.vmdk -rawdisk /dev/sda -partitions 3 -relative -register
xseries346:~ # RAW host disk access VMDK file /mnt/vb/wxp.vmdk created successfully.
xseries346:~ # VBoxManage modifyhd /mnt/vb/wxp.vmdk settype writethrough
in /mnt/vb are two files and /wxp-ken :
wxp-pt.vmdk (it's not readable)
wxp.vmdk with content:
xseries346:~ # VBoxManage internalcommands listpartitions -rawdisk /dev/sda tells us:
BUT in graphical "Sun VirtualBox" we'll see:
wxp.vmdk with size 100GB /this is !whole! /dev/sda
at this point I have stopped.
what hat happens? what have I done wrong?
thanks a lot
Yours Klaus
NB :
bytheway: I don't want to use fileimages or other bullsh*t ; I want to use raw hard disk access.
beta2 of3.0.0 seems to run well.
I'm a fan on accessing on pysical hard disks (just only a partition). it means (for me) speedful access directly onto harddisk.
[was very well installed on SLES10 with vb2.x.x; but times are changing; just now SLES11 with beta2 3.0.0 ]
following doesn't work. could somebody help?
thanks a lot. [actual pdf is fully printed ]
- /dev/sda ?101.70 GB? ?IBM-SERVERAID? ? ? ? ?
/dev/sda1? 2.01 GB? ?Linux swap ?Swap ? ?swap ?Kernel ?
/dev/sda2? 31.00 GB? ?Linux native ?Ext3 ? ?/ ?Kernel ?
/dev/sda3? 33.68 GB? ?HPFS/NTFS ? ? ? ? ?
/dev/sda4? 35.01 GB? ?HPFS/NTFS ? ? ? ?
my steps:
xseries346:~ # VBoxManage internalcommands createrawvmdk -filename /mnt/vb/wxp.vmdk -rawdisk /dev/sda -partitions 3 -relative -register
xseries346:~ # RAW host disk access VMDK file /mnt/vb/wxp.vmdk created successfully.
xseries346:~ # VBoxManage modifyhd /mnt/vb/wxp.vmdk settype writethrough
in /mnt/vb are two files and /wxp-ken :
wxp-pt.vmdk (it's not readable)
wxp.vmdk with content:
- # Disk DescriptorFile
version=1
CID=03e4b37c
parentCID=ffffffff
createType="partitionedDevice"
# Extent description
RW 63 FLAT "wxp-pt.vmdk"
RW 4208967 ZERO
RW 65015055 ZERO
RW 70637805 FLAT "/dev/sda3"
RW 73417050 ZERO
RW 10020 ZERO
# The disk Data Base
#DDB
ddb.virtualHWVersion = "4"
ddb.adapterType="ide"
ddb.geometry.cylinders="16383"
ddb.geometry.heads="16"
ddb.geometry.sectors="63"
ddb.uuid.image="e1353ee3-2c8b-40d5-bfe5-a879ff3b53d0"
ddb.uuid.parent="00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000"
ddb.uuid.modification="00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000"
ddb.uuid.parentmodification="00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000"
xseries346:~ # VBoxManage internalcommands listpartitions -rawdisk /dev/sda tells us:
- Number Type StartCHS EndCHS Size (MiB) Start (Sect)
1 0x82 0 /1 /1 261 /254/63 2055 63
2 0x83 262 /0 /1 1023/254/63 31745 4209030
3 0x07 1023/254/63 1023/254/63 34491 69224085
4 0x07 1023/254/63 1023/254/63 35848 139861890
BUT in graphical "Sun VirtualBox" we'll see:
wxp.vmdk with size 100GB /this is !whole! /dev/sda
at this point I have stopped.
what hat happens? what have I done wrong?
thanks a lot
Yours Klaus
NB :
bytheway: I don't want to use fileimages or other bullsh*t ; I want to use raw hard disk access.