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From: Edho P Arief <edhoprima@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: vbox error trying to create a raw disk file
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On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 12:52 PM, Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org> wrote:
> 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
>

check ownership of /dev/ad0 or run virtualbox as root


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