Unable to create raw vmdk

J Smith · Post by **J Smith** » 14. Nov 2015, 01:48

I tried to create a raw disk of a flash drive as described in chapter 9 of the manual

I got the following error

Js-MacBook-Pro:~ j$ diskutil list
/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *500.1 GB   disk0
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:          Apple_CoreStorage Macintosh HD            435.2 GB   disk0s2
   3:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             650.0 MB   disk0s3
   4:       Microsoft Basic Data BOOTCAMP                64.0 GB    disk0s4
/dev/disk1 (internal, virtual):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:                  Apple_HFS Macintosh HD           +434.9 GB   disk1
                                 Logical Volume on disk0s2
                                 7B7DFAA6-97A4-490A-BE8C-F06637B6973E
                                 Unlocked Encrypted
/dev/disk2 (external, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:     FDisk_partition_scheme                        *15.7 GB    disk2
   1:             Windows_FAT_32 ESD-USB                 15.7 GB    disk2s1
Js-MacBook-Pro:~ j$ diskutil unmount disk2s1
Volume ESD-USB on disk2s1 unmounted
Js-MacBook-Pro:~ j$ VBoxManage internalcommands createrawvmdk -filename /j/cruzer.vmdk -rawdisk /dev/disk2
VBoxManage: error: Cannot open the raw disk '/dev/disk2': VERR_ACCESS_DENIED
VBoxManage: error: The raw disk vmdk file was not created

The I tried running it using sudo, and I got a different error

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Js-MacBook-Pro:~ j$ sudo VBoxManage internalcommands createrawvmdk -filename /j/cruzer.vmdk -rawdisk /dev/disk2
Password:
VBoxManage: error: VMDK: could not create new file '/j/cruzer.vmdk'
VBoxManage: error: Error code VERR_FILE_NOT_FOUND at /Users/vbox/tinderbox/5.0-mac-rel/src/VBox/Storage/VMDK.cpp(3384) in function int vmdkCreateRawImage(VMDKIMAGE*, VBOXHDDRAW*, uint64_t)
VBoxManage: error: Cannot create the raw disk VMDK: VERR_FILE_NOT_FOUND
VBoxManage: error: The raw disk vmdk file was not created

I am running version 5.0.10 of virtual box on OS X El Capitan, 10.11.1