Trouble accessing raw Windows XP partition

[dark_kilauea]

I get this error:

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Syntax error: Invalid command 'createrawvmdk'

When trying to execute:

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VBoxManage internalcommands createrawvmdk -filename /home/joshua/.VirtualBox/winxpc.vmdk -rawdisk/dev/sda1 -register

on SuSE Linux. The version:

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VirtualBox Command Line Management Interface Version 1.5.6_OSE

What am I doing wrong? Did I get a version of virtualbox that does not support raw disk access?

[TerryE]

Vbox has supported Rawpartitions since 1.4

This error is raised when the internalcommands routine fails to parse p2. The only way I can repeat this is to put a non-printable character in createrawvmdk.