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Raw Disk on USB Drive

Posted: 17. Apr 2010, 16:45
by MrGuilt
Hi!

I'm trying to use a raw disk image that is on a USB drive. I'm using VirtualBox 3.1.6. The command I'm using it:

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vboxmanage internalcommands createrawvmdk -filename ~/Documents/lcp.vmdk -rawdisk /dev/disk1s1 -register
What I get back is:

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Error opening the raw disk '/dev/disk1s1': VERR_RESOURCE_BUSY
The raw disk vmdk file was not created
What's particularly frustrating is I can find few references to VERR_RESOURCE_BUSY on Google, mostly in the code.

Any idea what I need to do to get past this?

thanks,
Charles

Re: Raw Disk on USB Drive

Posted: 17. Apr 2010, 17:00
by stefan.becker
Probably the drive is mounted on the host?