2010/6/15 Brian J. Murrell <[email protected]> > > 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
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