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RAW host disk access VMDK file C:\VirtualBoxDrives\raw-0.vmdk created successf. (all on one line)Ĭ:\VirtualBoxDrives>"C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox\VBoxManage.exe" dev/disk1 (and unmount all partitions on disk1). \\.\PhysicalDrive0 (see "Enumerating physical drives in Windows" section below). On a Windows host, instead of the above device specification, use e.g. To accomplish this you can either change the owner and access rights of the device file or run VBoxManage internalcommands createrawvmdk… as root (put sudo before the command). You must have read access to the physical disk device file /dev/sda. To create an image that represents an entire physical hard disk (which will not contain any actual data, as this will all be stored on the physical disk), on a Linux host, use the command VBoxManage internalcommands createrawvmdk \ Create vmdk drives that read from real drives The procedure on how to accomplish this is left as an exercise.

20 min trying different options in VirtualBoxĭear reader, your attention is directed at the fact that it is equally straight forward to kill your data when the disc is accessed in this manner.Today, I managed to boot from physical drives. I made a smug comment ("Straight forward") when this question was originally posted and found myself at this page some months later looking for the same answer