Using a physical hard drive (raw vmdk)

[abalter]

I'm trying to follow this guide.

http://www.serverwatch.com/server-tutor ... ox-vm.html

to use an external 55GB SSD. Here is how I found my disk numbers:

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C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox>C:\Windows\System32\diskpart

Microsoft DiskPart version 10.0.10240

Copyright (C) 1999-2013 Microsoft Corporation.
On computer: NEWBOX

DISKPART> list disk

  Disk ###  Status         Size     Free     Dyn  Gpt
  --------  -------------  -------  -------  ---  ---
  Disk 0    Online          931 GB      0 B        *
  Disk 1    Online           55 GB      0 B

DISKPART>

So I entered the command:

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C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox>VBoxManage internalcommands createrawvmdk -filename "C:\Users\abalter\VirtualBox VMs\traveller\traveller.vmdk" -rawdisk \\.\PhysicalDrive1
RAW host disk access VMDK file C:\Users\abalter\VirtualBox VMs\traveller\traveller.vmdk created successfully.

In virtualbox, I try to add the vmdk to an existing vritual machine, and I get the error shown in the image below.

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Why is it looking for image file "C"? diskpart clearly said the physical drive was #1.

Also, if I try to create the vmdk without being in an elevated prompt, the operation fails.

[scottgus1]

It's looking in C: because your command told Virtualbox to make the pointer file on the C: drive ("C:\Users\abalter\VirtualBox VMs\traveller\traveller.vmdk") Best as I understand from reading the forum(I have not done raw disk access) later Windows OSs need Run-as-Admin for raw disk access to work.

Someone else will have to help with the Access Denied error. Try googling "raw disk access denied site:forums.virtualbox.org"