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quellen

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From: Italy

Registered: 2014-05-24

Posts: 364

[SOLVED] VirtualBox - Use an existing Windows partition

hello folks,
can i use my real Windows 10 partition on VirtualBox?
i have tried to make a .vmdk file with this command:

sudo VBoxManage internalcommands createrawvmdk -filename win10.vmdk -rawdisk /dev/sdb

(sdb is a hard disk that contains only one partition with windows 10)

But when i load it on VirtualBox says:

Permission problem accessing the file for the medium '/home/pippo/win10.vmdk' (VERR_ACCESS_DENIED).


Codice di uscita:
VBOX_E_FILE_ERROR (0x80BB0004)
Componente: 
MediumWrap
Interfaccia: 
IMedium {ad47ad09-787b-44ab-b343-a082a3f2dfb1}
Chiamante: 
IVirtualBox {d0a0163f-e254-4e5b-a1f2-011cf991c38d}
RC chiamante: 
VBOX_E_OBJECT_NOT_FOUND (0x80BB0001)

Last edited by quellen (2021-12-08 15:18:54)

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sorry for my bad english

ua4000

Member

Registered: 2015-10-14

Posts: 562

Re: [SOLVED] VirtualBox - Use an existing Windows partition

check if /home/pippo/win10.vmdk has acces rights by the user pippo - you invoked sudo to create the file !
(ls -la / chown / chmod)

quellen

Member

From: Italy

Registered: 2014-05-24

Posts: 364

Re: [SOLVED] VirtualBox - Use an existing Windows partition

i have rebooted my PC and now it works.

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sorry for my bad english