VirtualBox OSE, raw partition mounting

Posted by Hawke at Aug 07, 2009 09:01 PM | Permalink

with already existing install of Vista (factory), XP, and SUse 11.1, use VirtualBox OSE to boot into them through raw partition access...

run the following commands to create raw drive access:

VBoxManage internalcommands createrawvmdk -filename /home/bofh/vm/RAW-sda.vmdk -rawdisk /dev/sda

VBoxManage internalcommands createrawvmdk -filename /home/bofh/vm/RAW-sdb.vmdk -rawdisk /dev/sdb

Then run the disk manager, and select those as the drives.

That gets it to present the correct boot option menus.

Now still need to get XP to finish booting up all the way...

Posted by Hawke at Jun 29, 2009 07:52 AM

That will get it to boot further!