RAW host disk access VMDK file /path/to/diskname.vmdk created successfully. To spot the device when your Windows-disk is mounted, you can use

The reason is that during installation Windows (at least Windows 10) creates a bunch of partitions itself, like an EFI partition, a boot partition, and so on. So you need to find out /dev/sdb, for example, instead of something like /dev/sdb3.

It is important to identify the disk, not the partition. Identify the disk ¶įirst of all, you need to identify the disk on which Windows lives inside your computer. These are the steps I took to get it to work. Luckily, I found a way to virtualize the Windows installation in Virtualbox. But having a Windows installation AND a virtual Windows eats up disk space real quick. So I decided not to dump that standard installation but, instead, install Ubuntu Linux next to it. When I got my laptop from work, it came with Windows pre-installed together with an Office suite and so on. For my home machines, I use Linux as my main operating system and have Windows inside a Virtualbox. Even as a passionate Linux user I prefer Windows for certain tasks (e.g.

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