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Re: Out of memory allocating the partition descriptor
Posted: 17. Apr 2009, 18:23
by thenilo
Hello
Is there any solution of this issue?
I have the same problem.
My
fdisk -l
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Gerät boot. Anfang Ende Blöcke Id System
/dev/sda1 1 16 128488+ de Dell Utility
/dev/sda2 * 17 8940 71680000 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda3 8940 35712 215040000 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda4 35713 38913 25712032+ 5 Erweiterte
/dev/sda5 38306 38913 4883728+ 82 Linux Swap / Solaris
/dev/sda6 35713 37089 11060689+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda7 37090 38305 9767488+ 83 Linux
My
VBoxManage listpartitions
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linux:~$ VBoxManage internalcommands listpartitions -rawdisk /dev/sda
VirtualBox Command Line Management Interface Version 2.0.4_OSE
(C) 2005-2008 Sun Microsystems, Inc.
All rights reserved.
Number Type StartCHS EndCHS Size (MiB) Start (Sect)
1 0xde 0 /1 /1 15 /254/63 125 63
2 0x07 16 /16 /1 1023/254/63 70000 258048
3 0x07 1023/254/63 1023/254/63 210000 143618048
6 0x83 1023/254/63 1023/254/63 10801 573713406
7 0x83 1023/254/63 1023/254/63 9538 595834848
5 0x82 1023/254/63 1023/254/63 4769 615369888
My
fdisk /x /p
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Befehl (m für Hilfe): x
Expertenkommando (m für Hilfe): p
Festplatte /dev/sda: 255 Köpfe, 63 Sektoren, 38913 Zylinder
Nr AF Kp Sek Zyl Kp Sek Zyl Anfang Größe ID
1 00 1 1 0 254 63 15 63 256977 de
2 80 16 1 16 254 63 1023 258048 143360000 07
3 00 254 63 1023 254 63 1023 143618048 430080000 07
4 00 254 63 1023 254 63 1023 573713280 51424065 05
5 00 254 63 1023 254 63 1023 41656608 9767457 82
6 00 254 63 1023 254 63 1023 125 22121379 83
7 00 254 63 1023 254 63 1023 63 19534977 83
Thanks for your help.
Re: Out of memory allocating the partition descriptor
Posted: 17. Apr 2009, 18:47
by tytus
I have not been able to find a workaround for this issue.
Re: Out of memory allocating the partition descriptor
Posted: 18. Apr 2009, 00:33
by TerryE
tytus, as I said: there's a bug in the code. I am not sure if there is a workaround with second logical partition such as yours until the Dev team fix the bug. Sorry
Re: Out of memory allocating the partition descriptor
Posted: 18. Apr 2009, 01:22
by tytus
Appreciate your help Terry.
Re: Out of memory allocating the partition descriptor
Posted: 29. Apr 2009, 11:23
by sken
Hi All,
I'm Luca, currently running Debian lenny and Windows xp in dualboo: I just tried to virtualized my Windows XP physical partition, but I got the same error of you (I partioned some times ago and most likely I created and subsequentially deleted extended extended partions).
Any further progress/workaround in resolving this bug?
Thanks in advance
Luca
Re: Out of memory allocating the partition descriptor
Posted: 13. May 2009, 23:54
by drvi
hi,
i'm having the same problem even with 2.2.2 , in Ubuntu 9.04
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$ sudo VBoxManage internalcommands createrawvmdk -filename /home/drvi/.VirtualBox/HardDisks/Windows7.vmdk -rawdisk /dev/sda -partitions 2 -relative -register
VirtualBox Command Line Management Interface Version 2.2.2
(C) 2005-2009 Sun Microsystems, Inc.
All rights reserved.
Out of memory allocating the partition descriptor for '/dev/sda'
The raw disk vmdk file was not created
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$ sudo VBoxManage internalcommands listpartitions -rawdisk /dev/sda
VirtualBox Command Line Management Interface Version 2.2.2
(C) 2005-2009 Sun Microsystems, Inc.
All rights reserved.
Number Type StartCHS EndCHS Size (MiB) Start (Sect)
1 0x07 0 /1 /1 1023/254/63 14001 63
2 0x07 1023/0 /1 1023/254/63 16300 28676025
8 0x83 1023/254/63 1023/254/63 9216 62059221
6 0x83 1023/254/63 1023/254/63 62259 80935533
7 0x83 1023/254/63 1023/254/63 9224 208443438
5 0x82 1023/254/63 1023/254/63 3467 227335878
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$ sudo fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 120.0 GB, 120034123776 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14593 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x492b8267
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 1785 14337981 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2 1786 3863 16691535 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda3 3864 14593 86188725 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 14152 14593 3550333+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda6 5039 12975 63753921 83 Linux
/dev/sda7 12976 14151 9446188+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda8 3864 5038 9438124+ 83 Linux
Partition table entries are not in disk order
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$ sudo fdisk /dev/sda
Disk /dev/sda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 14593 cylinders
Nr AF Hd Sec Cyl Hd Sec Cyl Start Size ID
1 80 1 1 0 254 63 1023 63 28675962 07
2 00 0 1 1023 254 63 1023 28676025 33383070 07
3 00 0 1 1023 254 63 1023 62059095 172377450 05
4 00 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
5 00 254 63 1023 254 63 1023 165276783 7100667 82
6 00 254 63 1023 254 63 1023 63 127507842 83
7 00 254 63 1023 254 63 1023 63 18892377 83
8 00 254 63 1023 254 63 1023 125 18876249 83
after fixing the partition order
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$ sudo fdisk /dev/sda
Disk /dev/sda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 14593 cylinders
Nr AF Hd Sec Cyl Hd Sec Cyl Start Size ID
1 80 1 1 0 254 63 1023 63 28675962 07
2 00 0 1 1023 254 63 1023 28676025 33383070 07
3 00 0 1 1023 254 63 1023 62059095 172377450 05
4 00 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
5 00 254 63 1023 254 63 1023 126 18876249 83
6 00 254 63 1023 254 63 1023 18876437 127507842 83
7 00 254 63 1023 254 63 1023 127507968 18892377 83
8 00 254 63 1023 254 63 1023 18892503 7100667 82
was hoping to use windows7 from linux , and make full use of the 3D acceleration
any solutions yet
Re: Out of memory allocating the partition descriptor
Posted: 14. May 2009, 04:03
by TerryE
drvi wrote:i'm having the same problem even with 2.2.2 , in Ubuntu 9.04
That's because this bug wasn't fixed in 2.2.2
drvi wrote:was hoping to use windows7 from linux , and make full use of the 3D acceleration
any solutions yet
3D acceleration is an entirely different subject with its own active topic. Please review this topic.
Re: Out of memory allocating the partition descriptor
Posted: 14. May 2009, 05:25
by drvi
TerryE wrote:That's because this bug wasn't fixed in 2.2.2
ok. i thought that it hadnt been reported, for this version , so added a still exists... to this topic
TerryE wrote:3D acceleration is an entirely different subject with its own active topic. Please review this topic.
i understand 3D acceleration , but previously i had separate windows7 installs[1hard disk , 1vbox] , so i had to switch to the hard disk install if i had to use 3d with the programs i had installed on that drive... [i checked XP and the 3D acceleration worked , so thought that i'd use the harddisk install for windows 7 rather than reinstall the 3D dependent programs, so i deleted the vbox Windows7!!! before i executed the command createrawvmdk !hence the irony]
By the way, 3D acceleration ,using the hardware GPU, is a totally awesome feature... hats off to the devs
and the CPU usage has also drastically reduced, 2.2.2 is a good solid build...
Re: Out of memory allocating the partition descriptor
Posted: 16. Jun 2009, 16:03
by klaus
We just found time to look into this. The testcases I had are working correctly now with the code in SVN (will take a bit until it propagates to OSE). Next release will contain the fix, so let us know if there are still odd cases which aren't handled correctly.
Re: Out of memory allocating the partition descriptor
Posted: 16. Jun 2009, 20:05
by TerryE
Thanks klaus. Much appreciated
Re: Out of memory allocating the partition descriptor
Posted: 16. Jun 2009, 21:42
by vbox4me2
Unless his first name is Santa.... hahaha, sorry could not resist it
Re: Out of memory allocating the partition descriptor
Posted: 19. Jun 2009, 00:11
by tytus
Unfortunately I don't have this setup any more. I repartition my hard disk several weeks ago. I wonder if somebody else can test it...
Re: Out of memory allocating the partition descriptor
Posted: 1. Jul 2009, 17:42
by drvi
klaus wrote: Next release will contain the fix, so let us know if there are still odd cases which aren't handled correctly.
Did you mean the 3.0.0 or yet to be released 2.2.x . if it is fixed in 3.0.0 i can test it out.
Re: Out of memory allocating the partition descriptor
Posted: 1. Jul 2009, 19:17
by TerryE
@dvri, Why don't you just look at the announcement
VBoxManage: ?xed incorrect partition table processing when creating VMDK ?les giving raw partition access (bug #3510)
Re: Out of memory allocating the partition descriptor
Posted: 1. Jul 2009, 20:09
by drvi
TerryE wrote:@dvri, Why don't you just look at the announcement
VBoxManage: ?xed incorrect partition table processing when creating VMDK ?les giving raw partition access (bug #3510)
Ah...
thanx
I'll test it out within this week and report back if there are errors .