I am trying to set up VirtualBox using Ubuntu Gutsy as the host operating system and Windows XP as the guest operating system. I currently have Windows XP installed on a separate partition (of the same hard drive as Ubuntu), and that is working fine. I would like to use the existing installation as the guest installation using a "raw host hard disk."
I have VirtualBox version 1.5.2-25433_Ubuntu_gutsy installed from the VirtualBox repository.
Every time I attempt to boot I get the error "Error loading operating system".
I created the VMDK file three ways:
VBoxManage internalcommands createrawvmdk -filename ~/.VirtualBox/VMDK/windowsxp.vmdk -rawdisk /dev/sda -partitions 1 -mbr ~/Desktop/winxp.mbr -relative -register
VBoxManage internalcommands createrawvmdk -filename ~/.VirtualBox/VMDK/windowsxp2.vmdk -rawdisk /dev/sda -partitions 1 -mbr ~/Desktop/winxp.mbr -register
VBoxManage internalcommands createrawvmdk -filename ~/.VirtualBox/VMDK/windowsxp3.vmdk -rawdisk /dev/sda -partitions 1 -relative -register
After creating the VMDK file, two files are created (windowsxp.vmdk and windowsxp-pt.vmdk), I use the first (windowsxp.vmdk) as the virtual hard drive.
It behaves basically the same regardless.
The file "winxp.mbr" was created using the instructions provided by klaus in the topic:
http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic. ... k&start=15
For reference, here is the output from the command:
VBoxManage internalcommands listpartitions -rawdisk /dev/sda
VirtualBox Command Line Management Interface Version 1.5.2
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Number Type StartCHS EndCHS Size (MiB) Start (Sect)
1 0x07 0 /1 /1 1023/254/63 25603 63
3 0x83 1023/254/63 1023/254/63 94 52436160
5 0x83 1023/254/63 1023/254/63 25603 52629003
6 0x82 1023/254/63 1023/254/63 4094 105065163
7 0x0b 1023/254/63 1023/254/63 35769 113451093
2 0x12 1023/0 /1 1023/239/63 4222 186716880
Partition 1 is my Windows XP partition (NTFS)
Partition 2 is the IBM recovery console partition (I think)
Partition 3 is my boot partition (/boot)
Partition 5 is my root partition (/)
Partition 6 is my swap partition
Partition 7 is my shared drive (FAT32)
Any ideas how I can fix this?
- Ben