On Tue, 2008-10-28 at 09:05 -0700, Larry Riedel wrote:
> 
> The capability is described in section 9.9 of the User
> Manual.

Have you actually tried doing this?  I just did.  I have a physical
partition on my physical disk described in the vmdk file

~/.VirtualBox/Machines/Windows\ XP\ on\ partition\ 2/sda-mbr\,2\,5.vmdk

When I try adding it to a second VM I get:

$ VBoxManage modifyvm "Ubuntu Hardy (lustre test client)" -hda 
~/.VirtualBox/Machines/Windows\ XP\ on\ partition\ 2/sda-mbr\,2\,5.vmdk 
VirtualBox Command Line Management Interface Version 2.0.2
(C) 2005-2008 Sun Microsystems, Inc.
All rights reserved.

[!] FAILED calling machine->AttachHardDisk(uuid, StorageBus::IDE, 0, 0) at line 
4728!
[!] Primary RC  = NS_ERROR_FAILURE (0x80004005) - Operation failed
[!] Full error info present: true , basic error info present: true 
[!] Result Code = NS_ERROR_FAILURE (0x80004005) - Operation failed
[!] Text        = Hard disk '/home/brian-old-laptop/.VirtualBox/VDI/Ubuntu 
Hardy (lustre test client).vdi' is already attached to device slot 0 on channel 
0 of bus 1
[!] Component   = Machine, Interface: IMachine, 
{1e509de4-d96c-4f44-8b94-860194f710ac}
[!] Callee      = IMachine, {1e509de4-d96c-4f44-8b94-860194f710ac}

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