﻿id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	component	version	resolution	keywords	cc	guest	host
21125	RawDisk is creating an invalid .vmdk file => fixed in svn/7.0.x x>2	granada29	BP	"Previously discussed in https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=106934

VirtualBox 6.1.x creates a working .vmdk for this disk.

Is it possible that the disk sector size of 512Bytes is causing problems?

{{{
VBoxManage list hostdrives
Drive:       /dev/disk7
Model:       ""ST2000DM 006-2DM164""
UUID:        b79360f1-e7c7-4194-b6a5-421662d648e7
Size:        1.8TiB
Sector Size: 512 bytes
Scheme:      GPT
Partitions:
##  Type       Uuid                                   Size      Start   Active Name
 1  EFI        6d60184c-7cd2-4c8f-8cae-4cc11b4614d3  200.0MiB   20.0KiB  off   EFI System Partition
 2  AppleAPFS  deb68258-920f-43fc-a62b-baba4f4eca06  279.3GiB  200.0MiB  off   
 3  LinuxData  b9b1aad8-088c-46e4-a60f-2add43cb5a5f    1.5TiB  279.5GiB  off   
 4  LinuxSwap  66701cbd-503f-4792-9b96-0e35f28e9dfd   29.8GiB    1.7TiB  off
}}}


{{{
12:02:51.516 /usr/local/bin/VBoxManage createmedium disk --filename /Volumes/VirtualBox/Virtualbox/Linux/LinuxRawPartition/LinuxRawPartition.vmdk --format=VMDK --variant RawDisk --property RawDrive=/dev/disk7 --property Partitions=1,3,4
12:02:51.825 0%...10%...20%...30%...40%...50%...60%...70%...80%...90%...100%
12:02:51.825 Medium created. UUID: 5f68b7c7-51ae-41ca-9364-4b7bc051365d
}}}



{{{
# Disk DescriptorFile
version=1
CID=cca3f05b
parentCID=ffffffff
createType=""partitionedDevice""

# Extent description
RW 1 FLAT ""LinuxRawPartition-pt.vmdk"" 0
RW 39 FLAT ""LinuxRawPartition-pt.vmdk"" 1
RW 409600 FLAT ""/dev/disk7s1"" 0
RW 585937496 ZERO 
RW 3258181984 FLAT ""/dev/disk7s3"" 0
RW 62500008 FLAT ""/dev/disk7s4"" 0
RW 36028793111934840 ZERO 

# The disk Data Base 
#DDB

ddb.virtualHWVersion = ""4""
ddb.adapterType=""ide""
ddb.uuid.image=""0beb4189-4182-48e6-9fe2-4f999c8eb860""
ddb.uuid.parent=""00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000""
ddb.uuid.modification=""00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000""
ddb.uuid.parentmodification=""00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000""
}}}
"	defect	closed	virtual disk	VirtualBox 7.0.0	fixed			Linux	Mac OS X
