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+ <h1>Passthrough Mounting A Physical Disk Drive in VirtualBox</h1>
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+ <h2>Creating the Physical Disk VMDK</h2>
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+<ol>
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+ <li>Connect the physical disk to the host</li>
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+ <li>Log into the VirtualBox host</li>
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+ <li>Launch PowerShell as administrator</li>
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+ <li>Run the following commands
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+ <div class="codeBlock PS"># list physical disks<br />
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+ Get-PhysicalDisk</div>
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+ </li>
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+ <li>Take note of the disk number for the target disk to mount in VirtualBox</li>
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+ <li>Continue with the following commands
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+ <div class="codeBlock PS"># cd to the virtualbox installation directory<br />
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+ cd "$ENV:ProgramFiles\Oracle\VirtualBox"<br />
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+ # create a vmdk disk pointing to the target physical disk<br />
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+ # usage<br />
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+ # .\VBoxManage.exe internalcommands createrawvmdk -filename "<%fullpathto.vmdk%>" -rawdisk \\.\PhysicalDrive<%disknumber%><br />
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+ .\VBoxManage.exe internalcommands createrawvmdk -filename "D:\VMs\SSD.vmdk" -rawdisk \\.\PhysicalDrive2<br />
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+ # launch virtualbox manager<br />
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+ .\VirtualBox.exe</div>
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+ </li>
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+</ol>
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+<h2>Attaching the Physical Disk to a Virtual Machine</h2>
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+<p><span style="font-size:12px;"><em>NOTE: If you don't run VirtualBox Manager as administrator you will get permissions errors trying to access the physical disk</em></span></p>
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+<ol>
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+ <li>Right click on the target VM > Settings</li>
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+ <li>Select Storage from the left navigation menu</li>
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+ <li>Click the Add Hard disk icon</li>
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+ <li>Click Add > Browse to and select the .vmdk file created earlier</li>
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+ <li>Scroll to the bottom of the listing and select the .vmdk > Click Choose</li>
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+ <li>Click OK to confirm the VM settings</li>
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+ <li>Right click on the target VM > Start</li>
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+</ol>
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+<p>Documentation: <a href="https://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch09.html#rawdisk" target="_blank">https://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch09.html#rawdisk</a></p> </div>
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