First off, I'm using:
-Ubuntu 8.10 x64 (2.6.24-22-generic)
-Virtualbox 2.0.4_OSE
-4GB RAM
-Intel Core 2 Due Processor (2 GHz)
-Windows XP Pro
I've been following this guide:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=769883
When I try to do part 2 of step 2, I get this:
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chris@Phantom:~$ VBoxManage internalcommands createrawvmdk -filename ~/.VirtualBox/WinHD.vmdk -rawdisk /dev/sda3 -partitions 2 -relative -register
VirtualBox Command Line Management Interface Version 2.0.4_OSE
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Out of memory allocating the partition descriptor for '/dev/sda3'
The raw disk vmdk file was not created