Opened 7 years ago
Last modified 7 years ago
#17236 closed defect
createrawvmdk core dump — at Version 1
| Reported by: | Phi | Owned by: | |
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| Component: | virtual disk | Version: | VirtualBox 5.2.0 |
| Keywords: | createrawvmdk core dump | Cc: | |
| Guest type: | Linux | Host type: | Linux |
Description (last modified by )
Hi Guru's,
I get createrawvmdk core dump.
This is Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, virtualbox 5.2.0
The recipe is
RT$ dd if=/dev/zero of=yo.raw bs=1 seek=1073741824 count=1 1+0 records in 1+0 records out 1 byte copied, 0.000121448 s, 8.2 kB/s RT$ vboxmanage internalcommands createrawvmdk -filename yo.vmdk -rawdisk yo.raw Memory fault(coredump)
It took me a little while to discover I kinda goofed on the sparse file creation, my intent was to create a 1 Gb file, while I created here a 1Gb +1 byte sparse file.
A nice error message would be cool.
The workaround is to create the the sparse file correctly
RT$ dd if=/dev/zero of=yo.raw bs=1 seek=1073741823 count=1 1+0 records in 1+0 records out 1 byte copied, 0.000102826 s, 9.7 kB/s RT$ vboxmanage internalcommands createrawvmdk -filename yo.vmdk -rawdisk yo.raw RAW host disk access VMDK file yo.vmdk created successfully.
I flag this as 'low prio' as there is a work around.
Cheers, Phi
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