Booting Ubuntu Partition inside Windows using VirtualBox

[Jexel]

I've seen plenty of tutorials on google on how to boot an existing Windows Xp partition inside Ubuntu, however, I can't seem to find any information on the reverse.

I've read the guide http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=769883 and have attempted to create the vmdk file with success. However, when I try to load it in VB it gives me the error

Result Code:
E_FAIL (0x80004005)
Component:
HardDisk
Interface:
IHardDisk {91648dc6-bb19-46bf-9e1c-4bf5b960c8e2}
Callee:
IVirtualBox {779264f4-65ed-48ed-be39-518ca549e296}


I believe it may be todo with the vmdk file referencing the linux format of /dev/sda1 rather than the windows format of referencing partitions.

Does anyone have anyideas on how I can fix this problem?

Cheers.

[Jexel]

So I read the manual on "Using a raw host hard disk from a guest"

Here is what I did.

I identified the partitions I needed using the command:

VBoxManage.exe internalcommands listpartitions -rawdisk \\.\PhysicalDrive1

It gives me the result


Number Type StartCHS EndCHS Size (MiB) Start (Sect)
1 0x07 0 /32 /33 1023/254/63 902023 2048
5 0x83 1023/254/63 1023/254/63 49677 1847346543
6 0x82 1023/254/63 1023/254/63 2164 1949086188


5 is the ext3 partition and 6 is the swap.

So I then proceeded to creating my vmdk file

VBoxManage.exe internalcommands createrawvmdk -filename "C:\path\ubuntu1.vmdk" -rawdisk \\.\PhysicalDrive1 -partitions 5,6 -register

I then assign the vmdk file to my VM and try starting it.

It gives me the error:

FATAL: INT18: BOOT FAILURE

Any ideas?

[Jexel]

nvm, forgot to mount grub iso