This is an advanced feature, described in Using a Raw Host Hard Disk From a Guest. Each such virtual storage device, such as an image file, iSCSI target, or physical hard disk, needs to be connected to the virtual hard disk controller that Oracle VM VirtualBox presents to a virtual machine. I have a virtual disk of windows on VB running in ubuntu 20.04. VB version 6.1.6. Is it possible to clone that virtual disk to a physical disk so that it can be run as a stand-alone OS rather than through the VM? If it's possible, pointers to a guide would be really useful. Drives can be connected to a physical DVD or CD-ROM drives or ISO images. Here is how it can be done: Select the virtual machine from the Oracle VM VirtualBox Manager and click Settings: Click StorageAdd CD/DVD Device: Select whether you want to connect the drive to a physical drive or an ISO image file: Press OK to save the changes. Select the physical disk characteristics and click Next. Choose the physical hard disk to use from the drop-down list. VMware Workstation supports physical disks up to 2TB. Select whether you want to use the entire disk or use only individual partitions on the disk.
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I downloaded VBox as an alternative to VMWare, but it appears that VBox doesn't support using raw partitions to store VMs. I use this quite a lot, as I have a Mac and have Windows installed on an alternate partition. I occasionally come across something that I need Windows for and start a VM, and other times I need to boot in to Windows native.
Using the physical disk is the only real option here (other than having 2 installations, but that's overkill).
Thanks, Karl
P.S: I did search around here and found the command line tool. Didn't work on OSX (VERR_DEV_IO_ERROR with sudo). The VMDK that VMWare was using doesn't work either. Hence I don't believe the feature exists. Either I'm right or it's seriously badly exposed.
As the virtual machine will most probably expect to see a hard disk built into its virtual computer, Oracle VM VirtualBox must be able to present real storage to the guest as a virtual hard disk. There are presently three methods by which to achieve this:
Virtualbox Use Physical Disk Imager
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I downloaded VBox as an alternative to VMWare, but it appears that VBox doesn't support using raw partitions to store VMs. I use this quite a lot, as I have a Mac and have Windows installed on an alternate partition. I occasionally come across something that I need Windows for and start a VM, and other times I need to boot in to Windows native.
Using the physical disk is the only real option here (other than having 2 installations, but that's overkill).
Thanks, Karl
P.S: I did search around here and found the command line tool. Didn't work on OSX (VERR_DEV_IO_ERROR with sudo). The VMDK that VMWare was using doesn't work either. Hence I don't believe the feature exists. Either I'm right or it's seriously badly exposed.
As the virtual machine will most probably expect to see a hard disk built into its virtual computer, Oracle VM VirtualBox must be able to present real storage to the guest as a virtual hard disk. There are presently three methods by which to achieve this:
Virtualbox Use Physical Disk Imager
Oracle VM VirtualBox can use large image files on a real hard disk and present them to a guest as a virtual hard disk. This is the most common method, described in Section 5.2, 'Disk Image Files (VDI, VMDK, VHD, HDD)'.
iSCSI storage servers can be attached to Oracle VM VirtualBox. This is described in Section 5.10, 'iSCSI Servers'.
You can allow a virtual machine to access one of your host disks directly. This is an advanced feature, described in Using a Raw Host Hard Disk From a Guest.
Each such virtual storage device, such as an image file, iSCSI target, or physical hard disk, needs to be connected to the virtual hard disk controller that Oracle VM VirtualBox presents to a virtual machine. This is explained in the next section. Bd math olympiad problems and solutions pdf.
Virtualbox Use Physical Disk Defrag
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