after adding hard drive to virtual box how do i see it in windows

Same method applies for other hard drives!Ĥ. (Replace the path /home/acosonic/Virtual/win10.vmdk with your own path like /home/my_username/win10.vmdk) Create virtual drive with a pointer towards your windows 10 hard drive using following command: VBoxManage internalcommands createrawvmdk -filename '/home/acosonic/Virtual/win10.vmdk' -rawdisk /dev/sda I /O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytesĭevice Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type Sector size (logical /physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Select VirtualBox Extension Pack from the download location and click on open. Click on the tiny + icon located at the right-most corner of the window. # fdisk -lĭisk /dev/sda: 111, 8 GiB, 120034123776 bytes, 234441648 sectors Open VirtualBox and click on Tools, then click on Preferences. (In my case 120 GB SSD drive is visible as /dev/sda, in your case it might be /dev/sdb or something else, depending upon your hardware configuration). Figure out which parititon to use inside virtualbox with fdisk -l

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This is how I achieved it (as root user, type sudo su), then follow these steps: Mounting it will allow me to have maximum performance of windows under Linux, and minimize reasons to boot to Windows exclusively.

That drive is visible under linux (in my case as /dev/sda). To boot windows inside linux, without loosing any data, or ability to just boot to Windows 10 instead of linux, I've decided to virtualize existing Win 10 installation and use it's own SSD drive. So I figured what's next? They are going to cause you problems and crashes with Chrome or Firefox intentionally? This was really the straw that broke the camel's back, and I decided never to use Windows as a primary OS again, until they become completely open-source!

After adding hard drive to virtual box how do i see it in windows