VirtualBox starting physical Win10 HDD with VMDK - no bootable medium found!

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I want to mount a physical HDD (with a Windows 10 installation on it) into a VirtualBox Machine.



My host system is Ubuntu 17.10.



I created a VMDK for the HDD with that command:



sudo VBoxManage internalcommands createrawvmdk -filename "/home/user/Desktop/Win10HDD.vmdk" -rawdisk /dev/sda


then I owned the file with



sudo chown user Desktop/Win10HDD.vmdk


and



sudo chmod u+rwx Desktop/Win10HDD.vmdk


and I also did



sudo chmod 666 /dev/sda*


Now, I'm able to mount the VMDK File into a VirtualBox Machine, but when I boot it up, it says:



"FATAL: No bootable medium found! System halted."



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Does anybody has an idea how to solve this problem?







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    I don't understand the role of sudo chmod 666 /dev/sda* there and it seems inadvisable.
    – Michael Homer
    Nov 18 '17 at 21:14










  • Possibly marginally related (but with the roles reversed: Windows host and Linux guest): Sharing a hard disk partition with a Linux VM on VirtualBox.
    – G-Man
    Nov 18 '17 at 22:02














up vote
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down vote

favorite












I want to mount a physical HDD (with a Windows 10 installation on it) into a VirtualBox Machine.



My host system is Ubuntu 17.10.



I created a VMDK for the HDD with that command:



sudo VBoxManage internalcommands createrawvmdk -filename "/home/user/Desktop/Win10HDD.vmdk" -rawdisk /dev/sda


then I owned the file with



sudo chown user Desktop/Win10HDD.vmdk


and



sudo chmod u+rwx Desktop/Win10HDD.vmdk


and I also did



sudo chmod 666 /dev/sda*


Now, I'm able to mount the VMDK File into a VirtualBox Machine, but when I boot it up, it says:



"FATAL: No bootable medium found! System halted."



Settingsenter image description here



Does anybody has an idea how to solve this problem?







share|improve this question
















  • 1




    I don't understand the role of sudo chmod 666 /dev/sda* there and it seems inadvisable.
    – Michael Homer
    Nov 18 '17 at 21:14










  • Possibly marginally related (but with the roles reversed: Windows host and Linux guest): Sharing a hard disk partition with a Linux VM on VirtualBox.
    – G-Man
    Nov 18 '17 at 22:02












up vote
0
down vote

favorite









up vote
0
down vote

favorite











I want to mount a physical HDD (with a Windows 10 installation on it) into a VirtualBox Machine.



My host system is Ubuntu 17.10.



I created a VMDK for the HDD with that command:



sudo VBoxManage internalcommands createrawvmdk -filename "/home/user/Desktop/Win10HDD.vmdk" -rawdisk /dev/sda


then I owned the file with



sudo chown user Desktop/Win10HDD.vmdk


and



sudo chmod u+rwx Desktop/Win10HDD.vmdk


and I also did



sudo chmod 666 /dev/sda*


Now, I'm able to mount the VMDK File into a VirtualBox Machine, but when I boot it up, it says:



"FATAL: No bootable medium found! System halted."



Settingsenter image description here



Does anybody has an idea how to solve this problem?







share|improve this question












I want to mount a physical HDD (with a Windows 10 installation on it) into a VirtualBox Machine.



My host system is Ubuntu 17.10.



I created a VMDK for the HDD with that command:



sudo VBoxManage internalcommands createrawvmdk -filename "/home/user/Desktop/Win10HDD.vmdk" -rawdisk /dev/sda


then I owned the file with



sudo chown user Desktop/Win10HDD.vmdk


and



sudo chmod u+rwx Desktop/Win10HDD.vmdk


and I also did



sudo chmod 666 /dev/sda*


Now, I'm able to mount the VMDK File into a VirtualBox Machine, but when I boot it up, it says:



"FATAL: No bootable medium found! System halted."



Settingsenter image description here



Does anybody has an idea how to solve this problem?









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    I don't understand the role of sudo chmod 666 /dev/sda* there and it seems inadvisable.
    – Michael Homer
    Nov 18 '17 at 21:14










  • Possibly marginally related (but with the roles reversed: Windows host and Linux guest): Sharing a hard disk partition with a Linux VM on VirtualBox.
    – G-Man
    Nov 18 '17 at 22:02












  • 1




    I don't understand the role of sudo chmod 666 /dev/sda* there and it seems inadvisable.
    – Michael Homer
    Nov 18 '17 at 21:14










  • Possibly marginally related (but with the roles reversed: Windows host and Linux guest): Sharing a hard disk partition with a Linux VM on VirtualBox.
    – G-Man
    Nov 18 '17 at 22:02







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1




I don't understand the role of sudo chmod 666 /dev/sda* there and it seems inadvisable.
– Michael Homer
Nov 18 '17 at 21:14




I don't understand the role of sudo chmod 666 /dev/sda* there and it seems inadvisable.
– Michael Homer
Nov 18 '17 at 21:14












Possibly marginally related (but with the roles reversed: Windows host and Linux guest): Sharing a hard disk partition with a Linux VM on VirtualBox.
– G-Man
Nov 18 '17 at 22:02




Possibly marginally related (but with the roles reversed: Windows host and Linux guest): Sharing a hard disk partition with a Linux VM on VirtualBox.
– G-Man
Nov 18 '17 at 22:02















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