Unable to create VMDK file from SD Card reader on Ventura

[Nap]

[MBP 2014, Ventura 13.3.1, VBox 7.0.2 ]

I'm trying to pass-through my SD Card (Raspberry Pi image) to a Ubuntu CLI-Only Server running in a VM. Since I've been unable to assign the "Apple Internal Memory Card Reader [0820] to my VM using the USB Device tool that's in the VM's window frame, I thought I would create a VMDK mapping instead. But, I seem to be running into an error when trying to do that;

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sudo VBoxManage internalcommands createrawvmdk -filename "sdcard.vmdk" -rawdisk /dev/disk6
VBoxManage: error: VMDK: Image path: 'sdcard.vmdk'. Getting config interface failed
VBoxManage: error: Error code VERR_INVALID_PARAMETER at /Users/vbox/tinderbox/mac-rel/src/VBox/Storage/VMDK.cpp(4481) in function int vmdkRawDescParseConfig(PVMDKIMAGE, char **, uint32_t *, uint32_t *, void **, size_t *, bool *, char **)
VBoxManage: error: VMDK: could get raw descriptor for 'sdcard.vmdk'
VBoxManage: error: Error code VERR_INVALID_PARAMETER at /Users/vbox/tinderbox/mac-rel/src/VBox/Storage/VMDK.cpp(5296) in function int vmdkCreateImage(PVMDKIMAGE, uint64_t, unsigned int, const char *, PCVDGEOMETRY, PCVDGEOMETRY, PCRTUUID, PVDINTERFACEPROGRESS, unsigned int, unsigned int)
VBoxManage: error: Cannot create the raw disk VMDK: VERR_INVALID_PARAMETER
VBoxManage: error: The raw disk vmdk file was not created

Any suggestions?

[granada29]

Instead of using sudo to run VBoxManage, you could try changing the ownership of the disk devices.

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sudo chown <your username> /dev/disk6*
sudo chown <your username> /dev/rdisk6*

then run VBoxManage without using sudo