From owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 11 05:52:27 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3CFBE106564A for ; Thu, 11 Nov 2010 05:52:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dougb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from mail2.fluidhosting.com (mx23.fluidhosting.com [204.14.89.6]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C047D8FC15 for ; Thu, 11 Nov 2010 05:52:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 30843 invoked by uid 399); 11 Nov 2010 05:52:25 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO doug-optiplex.ka9q.net) (dougb@dougbarton.us@127.0.0.1) by localhost with ESMTPAM; 11 Nov 2010 05:52:25 -0000 X-Originating-IP: 127.0.0.1 X-Sender: dougb@dougbarton.us Message-ID: <4CDB8498.4020203@FreeBSD.org> Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2010 21:52:24 -0800 From: Doug Barton Organization: http://SupersetSolutions.com/ User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD amd64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.12) Gecko/20101028 Thunderbird/3.1.6 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.org X-Enigmail-Version: 1.1.2 OpenPGP: id=1A1ABC84 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Subject: vbox error trying to create a raw disk file X-BeenThere: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Development of Emulators of other operating systems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2010 05:52:27 -0000 I was following the instructions here: http://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch09.html#rawdisk And I got the following error: VBoxManage internalcommands createrawvmdk -filename WindowsXP.vmdk -rawdisk /dev/ad0 -partitions 1,5 Oracle VM VirtualBox Command Line Management Interface Version 3.2.10_OSE (C) 2005-2010 Oracle Corporation All rights reserved. ERROR: VMDK: could not open raw partition file '/dev/ad0' Error code VERR_ACCESS_DENIED at /home/tmp/home/ports/emulators/virtualbox-ose/work/VirtualBox-3.2.10_OSE/src/VBox/Devices/Storage/VmdkHDDCore.cpp(3661) in function int vmdkCreateRawImage(VMDKIMAGE*, VBOXHDDRAW*, uint64_t) Error while creating the raw disk VMDK: VERR_ACCESS_DENIED The raw disk vmdk file was not created Any suggestions? -- Nothin' ever doesn't change, but nothin' changes much. -- OK Go Breadth of IT experience, and depth of knowledge in the DNS. Yours for the right price. :) http://SupersetSolutions.com/