Support for this feature is described in the manual (you did read the manual, right?) in section 9.8 Advanced Storage Configuration.
Simply run:
$ VBoxManage internalcommands createrawvmdk -filename \
/path/to/file.vmdk -rawdisk /dev/sda
Monday, July 9, 2012
How to access a physical hard disk from VirtualBox
VirtualBox is a "virtualization product" with allows you to run a guest OS in a virtual machine. While you typically boot from a VirtualBox Virtual Disk Image (.vdi), it may be useful to boot off of physical media like a USB drive, or a partition of your hard drive.
Support for this feature is described in the manual (you did read the manual, right?) in section 9.8 Advanced Storage Configuration.
Simply run:
Support for this feature is described in the manual (you did read the manual, right?) in section 9.8 Advanced Storage Configuration.
Simply run:
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