Connecting phisycal partitions
Posted: 2. Jul 2012, 12:31
Hi all,
on a Linux Ubuntu 12.04 Hosts, I want to make usable from a Windows Virtual-box machine a partition that is a true phisycal windows partition.
The partition is a NTFS partition hosted in an extended one.
What I did:
With the "listpartitions" option I've discovered the partition is number 5, then:
But when I try to connect the image at the virtual machine, it says is not correct
I try to check if there is some permission issue, but it does seems to help.
Any idea??
Thanks in advance.
Angelo
on a Linux Ubuntu 12.04 Hosts, I want to make usable from a Windows Virtual-box machine a partition that is a true phisycal windows partition.
The partition is a NTFS partition hosted in an extended one.
What I did:
With the "listpartitions" option I've discovered the partition is number 5, then:
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sudo VBoxManage internalcommands createrawvmdk -filename Dati.vmdk -rawdisk /dev/sda -partitions 5
RAW host disk access VMDK file Dati.vmdk created successfully.
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NS_ERROR_FAILURE (0x80004005)
Any idea??
Thanks in advance.
Angelo