- The first primary partition is serving a Windows XP installation;
- The second is serving Ubuntu root file system;
- The third is its swap;
- There are four logic partitions in the extended partition.
I was annoyed by rebooting and swithing to another OS to work, so I need to leverage Virtualbox to run Windows XP virtual machine on Ubuntu. AND, I do hope to avoid reinstalling a Windows XP instance for that will waste my disk space.
I found many articles and discussion on the web, and I practised per the instructions, just as
- http://mesbalivernes.blogspot.com/2008/ ... sting.html
Unfortunately, I failed when trying to create a vmdk pointing to a raw disk. The error can also be found here: http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic. ... sc&start=0
The command I use is :
VBoxManage internalcommands createrawvmdk -filename ./WinXP.vmdk -rawdisk /dev/sda -partitions 1 -mbr ./myBootRecord.mbr -relative -register
and the output :
VirtualBox Command Line Management Interface Version 2.1.2
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All rights reserved.
Overlapping partition description areas. Aborting
Error reading the partition information from '/dev/sda'
The raw disk vmdk file was not created
'fdisk -l /dev/sda' shows :
Disk /dev/sda: 120.0 GB, 120034123776 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14593 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x92fc5002
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 1305 10482381 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2 1306 2849 12402180 83 Linux
/dev/sda3 2850 3098 2000092+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda4 3099 14593 92333587+ f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda5 3099 5460 18972702 b W95 FAT32
/dev/sda6 5461 8071 20972826 b W95 FAT32
/dev/sda7 8072 10682 20972826 b W95 FAT32
/dev/sda8 10683 14593 31415076 7 HPFS/NTFS
It's said that the reason is a bug in current version of VirtualBox (the version I'm using is 2.1.2), anybody could tell me whether there is a fix for it now? or other workarounds available ?
Thanks !!
