Changes between Initial Version and Version 2 of Ticket #21214

Timestamp:: Oct 31, 2022 11:11:40 AM (3 years ago)
Author:: paulson
Comment:: Thanks for the report. The implementation for creating raw VMDK images was moved to the VBoxManage 'createmedium' subcommand in VirtualBox 7.0 however that functionality wasn't quite complete as described in ticket #21125. Also as part of that transition the 'VBoxManage internalcommands createrawvmdk' functionality was broken. In short, creating raw VMDK images on VirtualBox 7 is currently unavailable but both issues, the 'createmedium' brokenness and the 'createrawvmdk' brokenness will be addressed in the next maintenance release of Virtualbox 7. As a temporary workaround you can install VirtualBox 6.1.x and use 'createrawvmdk' there.

Ticket #21214
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Ticket #21214 – Description

-              initial
+              v2
 I used this command in terminal:
+{{{
 VBoxManage internalcommands createrawvmdk -filename /home/ubuntusuperrootuser/physical-sdd.vmdk -rawdisk /dev/sdd
+}}}
 I received the following error information:
+{{{
 VBoxManage: error: VMDK: Image path: '/home/ubuntusuperrootuser/physical-sdd.vmdk'. Getting config interface failed
 VBoxManage: error: Error code VERR_INVALID_PARAMETER at /home/vbox/tinderbox/build-trunk/svn/src/VBox/Storage/VMDK.cpp(4481) in function int vmdkRawDescParseConfig(PVMDKIMAGE, char**, uint32_t*, uint32_t*, void**, size_t*, bool*, char**)
 …
 VBoxManage: error: Cannot create the raw disk VMDK: VERR_INVALID_PARAMETER
 VBoxManage: error: The raw disk vmdk file was not created
+}}}