Not exactly/directly a virtualbox problem, but peripherally at least. I have a windows vista host machine into which I have installed the hard drive from a windows xp machine, that I want to access as a virtualbox (3.2.4) guest.
The problem seems to be that the user that I am running virtualbox on vista under doesn't have permission to access the physical disk. i.e. VBoxManage internalcommands listpartitions -rawdisk \\.\PhysicalDrive0 ... Error opening the raw disk: VERR_ACCESS_DENIED I realize that I could just run the above as Administrator but that doesn't really help me in that I need to use the "createrawvmdk" internalcommand to create the vmdk, which again, I could do as Administrator, but when I then go to use the Virtual Media Manager as the regular user to add the vmdk I get the VERR_ACCESS_DENIED. I understand that this problem is not unlike having to give a regular user access to a /dev/sda type device on Linux when trying to use raw disk/partitions. I just don't know how to do this operation in Windows Vista. Can anyone help? Cheers, b. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ThinkGeek and WIRED's GeekDad team up for the Ultimate GeekDad Father's Day Giveaway. ONE MASSIVE PRIZE to the lucky parental unit. See the prize list and enter to win: http://p.sf.net/sfu/thinkgeek-promo _______________________________________________ VBox-users-community mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vbox-users-community
