Hi Steve, On Sunday 28 October 2007, Steve Lee wrote: > Hi, first let me say how impressed I am with VBox. It just works.
Glad to hear this. :) > My old 2 disk Windows setup died with the boot disk so I've installed > a new disk with Ubuntu Gutsy on. To get at my data disk I decided to > use the OSE version of VBox and build and install from trunk rather > than the version package for Gutsy. > > I need to access my old Windows data disk (/dev/sdb but unmounted) > from a Windows Guest and the manual indicates I can do so using VMDK. > However the 'VBoxManage internalcommands createrawvmdk' gives and > invlaid command and from the source it appears that if OSE then > USAGE_CREATERAWVMDK is 0 so is unavailable. > > What is my best course of action so I can access this disk and get at > all my data under Widows? The command `createrawvmdk` is not available in the OSE version. But you should be able to use the non-OSE version from our website for creating the VMDK and then use the OSE version to use it. Kind regards, Frank -- Dr.-Ing. Frank Mehnert innotek GmbH, http://www.innotek.de
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