Hi Matthias,
I can only give my $.02's worth re:
> Background: I'd like to be able to USE the dual-boot Windows XP partition
> NATIVELY inside VBox running under Solaris, so that I do not need to have
> multiple WinXPs on the box...
I tried it myself some time ago. It failed to boot.
Windows just freezes after showing the barcodes at the
bottom of the screen, then the whole line of barcodes
turns solid white, and windows freezes.
In addition, you will have to install guest ad-on
packages, which may or may not be what you want to
do if you are going to boot windows natively again.
I had also tried this in VMWare. Windows will boot
in VMWare, but windows will detect HW env changes and
will require to be re-registered. I did not want to do
this because I had run out of allowed number of registrations,
even though the re-registrations were due to having to
re-install windows due to corruptions.
Cheers,
JD
Matthias Pfützner - Data Center Ambassador - Strategy and Technology wrote:
> Folks,
>
> a couple of questions... ;-)
>
> 1.) When will we get the "-relative" switch to the
>
> VBoxManage internalcommands createrawvmdk -filename
> `pwd`/rootdiskp1p2.vmdk -rawdisk /dev/rdsk/c1t0d0p0 -partitions 1,2 -register
> -relative
>
> command?
>
> VirtualBox Command Line Management Interface Version 1.6.0
> (C) 2005-2008 Sun Microsystems, Inc.
> All rights reserved.
>
> Usage: VBoxManage internalcommands <command> [command arguments]
>
> Commands:
>
> createrawvmdk -filename <filename> -rawdisk <diskname>
> [-partitions <list of partition numbers> [-mbr <filename>] ]
> [-register] [-relative]
> Creates a new VMDK image which gives access to an entite host disk (if
> the parameter -partitions is not specified) or some partitions of a
> host disk. If access to individual partitions is granted, then the
> parameter -mbr can be used to specify an alternative MBR to be used
> (the partitioning information in the MBR file is ignored).
> The diskname is on Linux e.g. /dev/sda, and on Windows e.g.
> \\.\PhysicalDisk0).
> On Linux host the parameter -relative causes a VMDK file to be created
> which refers to individual partitions instead to the entire disk.
> Optionally the created image can be immediately registered.
> The necessary partition numbers can be queried with
> VBoxManage internalcommands listpartitions
>
> WARNING: This is a development tool and shall only be used to analyse
> problems. It is completely unsupported and will change in
> incompatible ways without warning.
>
> Syntax error: Invalid parameter '-relative'
>
> 2.) Or, if I do not do the "-register", when will
>
> VBoxManage registerimage disk `pwd`/rootdiskp1p2.vmdk -type immutable
>
> be working?
>
> VirtualBox Command Line Management Interface Version 1.6.0
> (C) 2005-2008 Sun Microsystems, Inc.
> All rights reserved.
>
> [!] FAILED calling hardDisk->SetType(HardDiskType::Immutable) at line 6384!
> [!] Primary RC = 0x80004005
> [!] Full error info present: true , basic error info present: true
> [!] Result Code = 0x80004005
> [!] Text = Currently, changing the type of VMDK hard disks is not
> allowed
> [!] Component = HardDisk, Interface: IHardDisk,
> {fd443ec1-000f-4f5b-9282-d72760a66916}
> [!] Callee = IHardDisk, {fd443ec1-000f-4f5b-9282-d72760a66916}
>
> 3.) When will I be able to do that as standard user, and not as user root?
>
> Background: I'd like to be able to USE the dual-boot Windows XP partition
> NATIVELY inside VBox running under Solaris, so that I do not need to have
> multiple WinXPs on the box...
>
> Any tips, hints, ideas?
>
> Matthias
>
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