RAW host disk access VMDK file /path/to/diskname.vmdk created successfully. To spot the device when your Windows-disk is mounted, you can use The reason is that during installation Windows (at least Windows 10) creates a bunch of partitions itself, like an EFI partition, a boot partition, and so on. So you need to find out /dev/sdb, for example, instead of something like /dev/sdb3. It is important to identify the disk, not the partition. Identify the disk ¶įirst of all, you need to identify the disk on which Windows lives inside your computer. These are the steps I took to get it to work. Luckily, I found a way to virtualize the Windows installation in Virtualbox. But having a Windows installation AND a virtual Windows eats up disk space real quick. So I decided not to dump that standard installation but, instead, install Ubuntu Linux next to it. When I got my laptop from work, it came with Windows pre-installed together with an Office suite and so on.
For my home machines, I use Linux as my main operating system and have Windows inside a Virtualbox. That means if you have the habit of using that Right Ctrl in your day to day usage (like editing a file), you could end up triggering a VirtualBox guest feature without knowing it.Even as a passionate Linux user I prefer Windows for certain tasks (e.g. Note: by default the Host key is the Right Ctrl key. Now they can be sure that the menu & status bar will fit your window as expected. So hitting Host + C again fixes the issue because it gets you out of the Scaled Mode. This is great, but the side effect is that the VirtualBox system removes the menu & status bar because these may not fit properly when you resize your window in that mode. The feature that let you change the size of your guest window to whatever dimensions you'd like (it does not even have to be a standard 4:3 or 16:9). » Keyboard Settings.), the Host + C is assigned to the Scaled Mode function. Looking at the list of hotkeys (From the menu: Input » Keyboard.
I had a similar problem where the menus & status bar were gone.
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