Heya,

the problem is that the OSE does not support the createrawvmdk internal
command. So its not possible in OSE to access drives directly.




Am Mittwoch, den 20.02.2008, 19:59 +0100 schrieb Michael Thayer:
> 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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