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I'm trying to boot my existing vista installation into virtualBox (Jaunty host).

My vista is installed on a raid set which is activated on ubuntu via dmraid -

$ sudo dmraid -r
/dev/sdb: "sil" and "isw" formats discovered (using isw)!
/dev/sdb: isw, "isw_baiacbfgeh", GROUP, ok, 312581806 sectors, data@ 0
/dev/sda: isw, "isw_baiacbfgeh", GROUP, ok, 312579693 sectors, data@ 0

$ mount
...
/dev/mapper/isw_baiacbfgeh_Volume01 on /mnt/Data type fuseblk (rw,nosuid,nodev,allow_other,blksize=4096)
/dev/mapper/isw_baiacbfgeh_Volume02 on /mnt/Main type fuseblk (rw,nosuid,nodev,allow_other,blksize=4096)
/dev/mapper/isw_baiacbfgeh_Volume03 on /mnt/Other type fuseblk (rw,nosuid,nodev,allow_other,blksize=4096)
...

The way I'm trying to do it - (following tutorial : http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=984437)

1. Created an iso image with grub in it, which will be my bootloader, running from an iso-mounted CD-Rom device. This iso image has grub defined to boot into (hd0,1). (my boot partition is /dev/mapper/isw_baiacbfgeh_Volume02)

2. Created a .vmdk file pointing to /dev/mapper/isw_baiacbfgeh_Volume0 (which as I understand is the entire raid set).

The command I used :

$ VBoxManage internalcommands createrawvmdk -filename ~/.VirtualBox/WinHD.vmdk -rawdisk /dev/mapper/isw_baiacbfgeh_Volume0 -relative -register

3. Created a new virtual machine as instructed in the tutorial.

When I try to start the vm I created - it seems something starts loading but I get a BSOD and the virtual machine restarts automatically in a split second....

Any ideas on how to debug this ?

All I can say is be very careful. Things like this have been know to brick your PC.

Here is what VBox suggests. http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Migrate_Windows

Read and read again, search for more information too by putting vista raw access site:forums.virtualbox.org in google