Hi Henning,

Please see the section "Advanced Topics" in the user manual.

Regards,

Michael

Henning Sprang wrote:
> Hi,
> I recently tested Virtualbox again, for use on the desktop instead of
> Xen, which is sometimes a bit too hard to handle for simple and fast
> tests on the desktop, and Qemu is too slow.
> 
> One thing I realized that is different in Virtualbox compared to Xen,
> Qemu, and VMware is, that I don't seem to find any ways to use existing
> block devices (partitions, lvm's, etc.) as disk, but only vdi files.
> 
> Is there a plan/workaround to enable Virtualbox to use standard  block 
> devices?
> 
> (I will check the docs if I find some hints if ther is at least some
> possibility to convert to and from vdi files, and mount them for
> debugging and things like that.)
> 
> 
> Henning

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