Passthrough Mounting A Physical Disk Drive in VirtualBox
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#VirtualBox #DiskDrive #Passthrough #VirtualMachine • Full steps can be found at https://i12bretro.github.io/tutorials... • -------------------------------------------------------------------- • Creating the Physical Disk VMDK • -------------------------------------------------------------------- • 01. Connect the physical disk to the host • 02. Log into the VirtualBox host • 03. Launch PowerShell as administrator • 04. Run the following commands • list physical disks • Get-PhysicalDisk • 05. Take note of the disk number for the target disk to mount in VirtualBox • 06. Continue with the following commands • cd to the virtualbox installation directory • cd $ENV:ProgramFiles\\Oracle\\VirtualBox • create a vmdk disk pointing to the target physical disk • usage • .\\VBoxManage.exe internalcommands createrawvmdk -filename ≪%fullpathto.vmdk%≫ -rawdisk \\\\.\\PhysicalDrive≪%disknumber%≫ • .\\VBoxManage.exe internalcommands createrawvmdk -filename D:\\VMs\\SSD.vmdk -rawdisk \\\\.\\PhysicalDrive2 • launch virtualbox manager • .\\VirtualBox.exe • • -------------------------------------------------------------------- • Attaching the Physical Disk to a Virtual Machine • -------------------------------------------------------------------- • NOTE: If you don't run VirtualBox Manager as administrator you will get permissions errors trying to access the physical disk • • 01. Right click on the target VM ≫ Settings • 02. Select Storage from the left navigation menu • 03. Click the Add Hard disk icon • 04. Click Add ≫ Browse to and select the .vmdk file created earlier • 05. Scroll to the bottom of the listing and select the .vmdk ≫ Click Choose • 06. Click OK to confirm the VM settings • 07. Right click on the target VM ≫ Start • • Documentation: https://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch0... • • • Connect with me and others ### • ★ Discord: / discord • ★ Reddit: / i12bretro • ★ Twitter: / i12bretro
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