On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 9:04 AM, Olive <[email protected]> wrote: > I use Virtualbox with as host Windows XP. > > I want to configure a raw disk access within virtualbox. The procedure > is described in the manual but we need to mention the physical drive > this way: \\.\PhysicalDrive<n> . However the way windows number the > hard disk is not something permanent. Especially for hotpluggable > device, what Windows considers as the physical drive <n> depends of > what you have plugged. Is it possible to make a raw disk access that > always refer to the same physical disk, independent of the number > Windows has attached to it? > > It is for accessing a USB drive. The alternative is to enable a USB > filter and you it as a USB disk from within the guest system. But I > always had some trouble doing this; I would prefer the first method. > > Olive > >
This is definitely not recommended at all, but if you must proceed, do so with extreme caution. As to the specificity of your question: I don't think there is a better alternative but I'm not 100% so I could be way off base. In Linux you can refer to a physical drive in several ways, one of which is a drive UUID number which is theoretically unique across all the drives in your system. Referring to a drive by its UUID allows the system to find the drive on any connection bus, as opposed to knowing that it was a usb drive and which /dev/sdX was assigned to it by the system. If you can use something like UUID in the windows XP environment that might work, but I have no idea if its even possible and I've never tried it. Rance ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Next 800 Companies to Lead America's Growth: New Video Whitepaper David G. Thomson, author of the best-selling book "Blueprint to a Billion" shares his insights and actions to help propel your business during the next growth cycle. Listen Now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/SAP-dev2dev _______________________________________________ VBox-users-community mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vbox-users-community
