creating with rawdisk on an existing partition

mess-mate · Post by **mess-mate** » 23. Feb 2009, 19:03

Hi,
i can create the virtualbox with rawdisk and partitions 1.
When i enter virtualbox, it seems created for the entire disk but the first partition is only 50G.
Did i something wrong or is the parameter -partition 1 not working.
My virtualbox version = 2.1.4

Post by **TerryE** » 23. Feb 2009, 19:49

Sorry but you need to give us more specific details: what exactly do you type in your VBoxManage command(s)? What exactly were the errors?

mess-mate · Post by **mess-mate** » 23. Feb 2009, 20:12

I've typed:

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VBoxManage internalcommands createrawvmdk -filename ~/Vbox/win2000.vmdk -rawdisk /dev/hda -partitions 1 -register  -mbr mbr.mbr

and the vbox was created. But for the entire disk space, not the first partition.

Post by **Sasquatch** » 23. Feb 2009, 20:45

The first partition is accessible, the rest isn't.

mess-mate · Post by **mess-mate** » 23. Feb 2009, 20:53

Thanks, but why the created vbox is about 149G large and the partition i'd selected only 50G ?

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Number  Type   StartCHS       EndCHS      Size (MiB)  Start (Sect)
1       0x0c  0   /1  /1   1023/254/63         50610           63
5       0x83  1023/254/63  1023/254/63            70    103651443
6       0x83  1023/254/63  1023/254/63          1427    103796028
7       0x83  1023/254/63  1023/254/63         23838    106719858
8       0x83  1023/254/63  1023/254/63          9538    155541393
9       0x83  1023/254/63  1023/254/63          1906    175076433
10      0x83  1023/254/63  1023/254/63          3812    178980228
11      0x83  1023/254/63  1023/254/63          1906    186787818
12      0x83  1023/254/63  1023/254/63           956    190691613
13      0x83  1023/254/63  1023/254/63           956    192651543
14      0x82  1023/254/63  1023/254/63           666    194611473
15      0x83  1023/254/63  1023/254/63         20002    195976998
16      0x83  1023/254/63  1023/254/63         16747    231 942748

hda1 is a primary partition.

Post by **TerryE** » 23. Feb 2009, 23:04

mess-mate wrote:I've typed:
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VBoxManage internalcommands createrawvmdk -filename ~/Vbox/win2000.vmdk -rawdisk /dev/hda -partitions 1 -register  -mbr mbr.mbr
and the vbox was created. But for the entire disk space, not the first partition.

Read the documentation carefully. As sasquatch says your VMDK looks like the full disk, but you only have r/w access to the partitions that you specify.