Comments on: start installed Windows Vista from Linux using VirtualBox

By: guglez

guglez — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 18:22:16 +0000

to run virtualbox without sudo you must add your current user to group “disk”

By: Timmy

Timmy — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 10:21:06 +0000

On my machine I struggled with MergeIDE.reg. I did not need the batch file to copy the drivers (atapi.sys etc) as they were already present.

May be everyone else knew this already – to “execute” MergeIDE.reg I needed to rightclick on it in Vista and select Merge. The command in the *.bat file did not work for me.

By: walter

walter — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 02:44:40 +0000

for anyone getting “VERR_ACCESS_DENIED”…it is caused by the original suggestion to create your vmdk using “sudo vboxmanage…” and then trying to access that vmdk using a “normal” non-root ID.

also, it’s generally a bad thing to require sudo to use vbox.

so if you just create the vmdk using those commands but leave “sudo” off and just use your normal ID to create it, you should be fine.

By: walter

walter — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 02:40:35 +0000

for joaca_rj:

yes, booting directly into a windows partition works great, that’s what i do. i installed linux on /dev/sda and vista on /dev/sdb…neither os “knows” about the other w/ their boot-menus. i control booting via the bios boot menu and disable the vista partition. so from vb i boot directly to /dev/sdb. works great.

By: bhupendra

bhupendra — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 23:20:53 +0000

I am planning to work on something similar. I need to boot xp from fedora. One thing which you could have tried, whch I plan to – have default windows, load linux with grub not on mbr. use gag boot loader to go to linux and configure virtualbox.

By: sumit

sumit — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 19:19:58 +0000

i m using fedora 11 and after using
[root@sumit-laptop log]# VBoxManage internalcommands createrawvmdk -filename ~/.VirtualBox/vista_physical_partition-sda.vmdk -rawdisk /dev/sda
VirtualBox Command Line Management Interface Version 3.0.6
(C) 2005-2009 Sun Microsystems, Inc.
All rights reserved.

Error while creating the raw disk VMDK: VERR_ALREADY_EXISTS
The raw disk vmdk file was not created
plz help

By: remy

remy — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 22:16:17 +0000

“VERR_ACCESS_DENIED” => try executing your shell commands as root

By: deepak

deepak — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 10:30:46 +0000

when i tried it the following error pops yp .any help?
Could not open the hard disk ‘/home/dpkn/.VirtualBox/vista_physical_partition-sda.vmdk’.
VD: error opening image file ‘/home/dpkn/.VirtualBox/vista_physical_partition-sda.vmdk’ (VERR_ACCESS_DENIED).

Result Code:
NS_ERROR_FAILURE (0×80004005)
Component:
HardDisk2
Interface:
IHardDisk2 {ed6e2525-c2fd-42a4-917a-7a9045ac9e15}
Callee:
IVirtualBox {339abca2-f47a-4302-87f5-7bc324e6bbde}

By: Yuri Calazans

Yuri Calazans — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 18:46:30 +0000

Excellent tutorial! Thanks a lot!

Im posting this message from my Vista, logged throw the VirtualBox

By: joaca_rj

joaca_rj — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 17:39:13 +0000

How about creating a windows boot disk image and keeping it as mounted media in virtualbox, so it could just skip grub and start the windows partition… (and maybe changing default OS in grub just for safety…), unfortunately, I can’t test it out, cuz I don’t have a Windows partition…..