Passthrough Mounting A Physical Disk Drive in VirtualBox

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Full steps can be found at https://i12bretro.github.io/tutorials...

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Creating the Physical Disk VMDK
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   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
 
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Attaching the Physical Disk to a Virtual Machine
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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...
 


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