WinXP as guest on Physical Drive doesn't work

[karit]

I am trying to run WinXP off a Physical Drive and when it is booting up it just dies. And says look at the forum and attached the log file.

I also use this windows natively from the disk but would also like to access WinXP while I am in Ubuntu via Virtual Box

Boots
Can select Windows fine from Grub
Select the Virtual Box cloned Hardware Profile
Get an Error Box Titled Virtual Box = Guru Meditation

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A critical error has occurred while running the virtual machine and the machine execution has been stopped.
For help, please see the Community section on http://www.virtualbox.org or your support contract. Please provide the contents of the log file VBox.log and the image file VBox.png, which you can find in the /root/.VirtualBox/Machines/Root Real XP/Logs directory, as well as a description of what you were doing when this error happened. Note that you can also access the above files by selecting Show Log from the Machine menu of the main VirtualBox window.
Press OK if you want to power off the machine or press Ignore if you want to leave it as is for debugging. Please note that debugging requires special knowledge and tools, so it is recommended to press OK now.

Any suggestions will be gratefully recieved

[MarkCranness]

Refer to this sticky: Howto: Windows XP in both VM and native.
You could likely have found that thread by searching, so consider yourself told off!

[pancho]

I have the same problem but the host is windows home, and trying to install professional as guest.

[MarkCranness]

Refer to this sticky...

Sorry, I really don't know why I said that...

There is a known raw disk access regression in 3.0.10: http://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/5355
Is that more helpful?