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Anyone have success booting Windows 10 raw partition as a guest in VirtualBox?
Posted: 15. Apr 2016, 21:42
by mark.j.bobak
Hi all,
I'm running VirtualBox 5.0.16 on Ubuntu 16.04 (beta) which is dual booting Windows 10 on a Dell Inspiron 15R.
I'm trying to boot the Windows 10 Raw Disk partition in a VM w/ Linux as the host.
I'm not having much luck. Before I get into specific details, I'm wondwering if there is any fundamental reason that this doesn't work with Windows 10? I've done it successdully in Win XP and Windows 7.
-Mark
Re: Anyone have success booting Windows 10 raw partition as a guest in VirtualBox?
Posted: 23. Jul 2016, 20:57
by xtermi2
Yes, I did it today. I have now a running RAW Windows 10 64-bit in VirtualBox 5.1.2 on Ubuntu 16.4 as host. I can boot it native and in VirtualBox.
- Ubuntu: /dev/sda*
- Windows 10: /dev/sdb1-3
I used the original MBR:
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sudo dd if=/dev/sdb of=Windows10RAW.mbr count=1 bs=512
And created the virtual "Disk Image" with all partitions on /des/sdb:
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sudo VBoxManage internalcommands createrawvmdk -filename Windows10RAW.vmdk -rawdisk /dev/sdb -mbr Windows10RAW.mbr -partitions 1,2,3
Worked exactly like on Windows 7.
I upgraded from Windows 7 to 10, but the VirtualBox configuration of Win 7 was not working. Virtualbox has frozen the whole Host during boot of Win 10. But after creating a new VirtualBox Machine and virtual "Disk Image" everything worked like a charm
Regards
Re: Anyone have success booting Windows 10 raw partition as a guest in VirtualBox?
Posted: 23. May 2017, 08:25
by iamrhari
I have a legacy (BIOS) dual boot of Ubuntu and Windows 10 installed on a /dev/sdb (SSD).
My user profile directory for Windows and Linux Home are mounted on /dev/sda (SATA).
My goal is to boot the installed Windows 10 as a guest on my Ubuntu 16.04 host.
My installation / configuration:
Disk 1 (SSD):
- /dev/sdb2 --> Windows 10
- /dev/sdb5 --> Ubuntu 16.04
Disk 2 (SATA):
- /dev/sda1 --> Windows Home / Profile
- /dev/sda6 --> Linux Home
I modified the command as follows to suit my installation:
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sudo dd if=/dev/sdb of=WXRAW.mbr count=1 bs=512
sudo VBoxManage internalcommands createrawvmdk -filename WXRAW.vmdk -rawdisk /dev/sdb -mbr WXRAW.mbr -partitions 2 -rawdisk /dev/sda -partitions 1
This created 2 files :
- WXRAW-pt.vmdk &
- WXRAW.vmdk
Then I configured the following on VirtualBox GUI:
- Create Virtual Machine : Name (WXRAW) , Type (Microsoft Windows), Version (Windows 10 (64-bit)
- Memory Size : 2048 MB
- Hard Disk : Use an existing virtual hard disk file (WXRAW.vmdk (Normal, 931.51 GB))
Then I start the Virtual machine, which failed and dropped into a grub rescue prompt:
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error: no such device : 3e4df68b-fec1-4ea4-8083-dbc2572cd3d1.
Entering rescue mode...
grub rescue
My grub.cfg boot menu has Ubuntu, Advanced Ubuntu options _and_ finally Window 10. The UUID (3e4df68b-fec1-4ea4-8083-dbc2572cd3d1) in the above error is for the Ubuntu root, while the intent is to boot Windows 10.
I think there are some known issues with my config such as:
- Ubuntu options from Grub menu is not removed.
- Linux partitions are mounted on my windows and vice versa.
But are these mandatory to even get the Windows 10 VM started ?
Is there a cheat sheet for Booting Windows 10 rawdisk guest from Linux (Ubuntu) host ?
Re: Anyone have success booting Windows 10 raw partition as a guest in VirtualBox?
Posted: 24. May 2017, 01:44
by chains
xtermi2 wrote:- Ubuntu: /dev/sda*
- Windows 10: /dev/sdb1-3
I used the original MBR:
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sudo dd if=/dev/sdb of=Windows10RAW.mbr count=1 bs=512
And created the virtual "Disk Image" with all partitions on /des/sdb:
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sudo VBoxManage internalcommands createrawvmdk -filename Windows10RAW.vmdk -rawdisk /dev/sdb -mbr Windows10RAW.mbr -partitions 1,2,3
I tried following your instructions but I'm getting a black screen with an underscore/cursor. Here is what I tried:
sudo VBoxManage internalcommands createrawvmdk -filename "/home/jsmith/.config/VirtualBox/win10.vmdk" -rawdisk /dev/nvme0n1 -partitions 1,3,4 -mbr windows10raw.mbr
RAW host disk access VMDK file /home/jsmith/.config/VirtualBox/win10.vmdk created successfully.
then loaded the vmdk into virtualbox and tried to start. Anyone have any ideas?
Re: Anyone have success booting Windows 10 raw partition as a guest in VirtualBox?
Posted: 7. Apr 2019, 12:50
by asenler
sudo apt install mbr
install-mbr -e1 -p1 -T /dev/sdb windows10raw.mbr --force
Yıu can use this mbr.