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LM17 Virtualbox creating vmdk

BarkingGhostar

BarkingGhostar

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I thought I was using the correct syntax, but apparently I am not. 'mount' shows my USB flash drive on /dev/sdb1 and I used the following string and got the result:

Code: 
barking@barking ~ $ vboxmanage internalcommands createrawvmdk -filename test.vmdk -rawdisk /dev/sdb1
VBoxManage: error: Cannot open the raw disk '/dev/sdb1': VERR_ACCESS_DENIED
VBoxManage: error: The raw disk vmdk file was not created

I've previously included myself as a user to the virtualbox group, which made attaching USB devices in VMs possible but for some off reason I do not know how to interpret the above error (comprehension problem).
 
I actually got it to work, but I had to correct for uppercase lettering (VBoxManage vs vboxmanage) and use sudo at the beginning. Still, it made the vmdk, but not of the contents of the source (576 byte vmdk made of a 3GB directpory of contents).
 
OK, turns out it isn't really making a vmdk, but rather creates a vmdk symbolic link to the original source, which didn't help at all. Boo
 
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