On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 12:52 PM, Doug Barton <[email protected]> wrote: > I was following the instructions here: > > http://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch09.html#rawdisk > > And I got the following error: > > VBoxManage internalcommands createrawvmdk -filename WindowsXP.vmdk -rawdisk > /dev/ad0 -partitions 1,5 > Oracle VM VirtualBox Command Line Management Interface Version 3.2.10_OSE > (C) 2005-2010 Oracle Corporation > All rights reserved. > > ERROR: VMDK: could not open raw partition file '/dev/ad0' > Error code VERR_ACCESS_DENIED at > /home/tmp/home/ports/emulators/virtualbox-ose/work/VirtualBox-3.2.10_OSE/src/VBox/Devices/Storage/VmdkHDDCore.cpp(3661) > in function int vmdkCreateRawImage(VMDKIMAGE*, VBOXHDDRAW*, uint64_t) > Error while creating the raw disk VMDK: VERR_ACCESS_DENIED > The raw disk vmdk file was not created >
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