#2214 closed defect (duplicate)
Unable to start VMs which boot from a raw partition using the SATA controller
| Reported by: | Robert Bordelon | Owned by: | |
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| Component: | VM control | Version: | VirtualBox 2.0.2 |
| Keywords: | Cc: | ||
| Guest type: | other | Host type: | Linux |
Description
Any attempt to start a guest whose boot disk is a raw partition (via vmdk) and which uses the SATA controller fails immediately with the following error:
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Unknown error creating VM.
VBox status code: -2 (VERR_INVALID_PARAMETER).
Result Code: NS_ERROR_FAILURE (0x80004005)
Component: Console
Interface: IConsole {d5a1cbda-f5d7-4824-9afe-d640c94c7dcf}
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Looking in the log, it appears the problem is when the geometry of the disk is read:
00:00:32.354 AHCI: LUN#0: disk, PCHS=1/16/63, total number of sectors 0
The number of cylinders in the above line is supposed to be 16383 in my case.
The guest type does not matter.
When I switch to the IDE controller, it works fine.
If I'm using a vdi and SATA controller, it works fine, too.
I'm using Logical Volumes as the "raw" disks so that might be a factor, but this setup was working fine in Virtualbox 1.6.6.
I'm attaching the log, and vmdk file for one of the failing guests.
VBox.log