Am 04.05.2013 03:20 schrieb "Yuri" <y...@rawbw.com>: > > I have a Linux guest with VDI hard drive. > I want to attach the physical (on host) hard drive to this guest. > > So I created the ada3.vmdk pointing to /dev/ada3: > VBoxManage internalcommands createrawvmdk -filename ada3.vmdk -rawdisk /dev/ada3 > Then I ran this command to attach ada3.vmdk to the machine Mint-mate-32: > VBoxManage storageattach "Mint-mate-32" --storagectl "SATA" --port 1 --device 0 --type hdd --medium "/home/yuri/VirtualBox VMs/Mint-mate-32/ada3.vmdk" > > This added another HardDrive in Mint-mate-32.vbox: > <HardDisk uuid="{408da1c6-8939-42d3-a03b-da6d3c4d36ad}" location="ada3.vmdk" format="VMDK" type="Normal"/> > And also this hard drive's description under <StorageController name="SATA" type="AHCI" PortCount="2" useHostIOCache="false" Bootable="true" IDE0MasterEmulationPort="0" IDE0SlaveEmulationPort="1" IDE1MasterEmulationPort="2" IDE1SlaveEmulationPort="3">: > <AttachedDevice type="HardDisk" port="1" device="0"> > <Image uuid="{408da1c6-8939-42d3-a03b-da6d3c4d36ad}"/> > </AttachedDevice> > > However, this machine fails to start now: VERR_ACCESS_DENIED on ada3.vmdk > No further explanation, except NS_ERROR_FAILURE (0x80004005) > Log provides no further insight also. > > Hard drive is recognized by the host system as: > ada3 at ahcich7 bus 0 scbus7 target 0 lun 0 > ada3: <WDC WD1600BEVT-22ZCT0 11.01A11> ATA-8 SATA 2.x device > ada3: 300.000MB/s transfers (SATA 2.x, UDMA6, PIO 8192bytes) > ada3: Command Queueing enabled > ada3: 152627MB (312581808 512 byte sectors: 16H 63S/T 16383C) > > How can I get information what the error actually is? > Is such operation reasonable? Is it supposed to work? > > Yuri
My first guess is that permissions for /dev/ada3 are not sufficient for your vbox user. _______________________________________________ freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-emulation To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-emulation-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"