It will create a file with something around 1kb that is a link to the physical hard drive. In Linux $ VBoxManage internalcommands createrawvmdk -filename "~/linuxhd.vmdk" -rawdisk "/dev/sda" RAW host disk access VMDK file E:\virtualbox\linuxhd.vmdk created successfully.
In Windows C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox>VBoxManage.exe internalcommands createrawvmdk -filename "E:\virtualbox\linuxhd.vmdk" -rawdisk "\\.\PhysicalDrive1" So there are at least two known and tested ways for accomplishing this that I can tell you.Īs answered, this also can be done in VirtualBox, this is the way that works for meĪlways, make sure that you are running as Administrator(Windows) or Sudo(Linux), any changes that you do will write to the REAL disk, so be carefull More Info: I should add, I have successfully done this, but I also had success using this method years even years before. At this point you're done Select Power On to boot the Physical drive.
Select the memory to devote to the virtual machine.Choose public or private (on a single-user machine this doesn't.Go to File -> New -> New Virtual Machine.sudo mount ntfs-3g /dev/whereyourdriveis /mount/somemountpoint -oįorce Once the drive is mounted under linux contiunue to step 2.
If the drive was shutdown uncleanly you may need to manually Used a USB 3.5 HD enclosure and connect the XP drive to it. Yes, I did this long ago following this guide:
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