hopefully this is the right forum for this question. Using virtual box for a VM on a laptop that dual boots into Linux or window 7. What I want to do is share my home partition between the Linux VM when running windows 7 and native Linux. In order to do so, I need access to the raw partition from Windows 7. When I follow the instructions in the virtual box manual, I got the following result: C:\Users\esj>"c:\Program Files\Sun\xVM VirtualBox\VBoxManage.exe" internalcommands listpartitions -rawdisk \\.\PhysicalDrive0 VirtualBox Command Line Management Interface Version 3.0.2 (C) 2005-2009 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved. Error opening the raw disk: VERR_ACCESS_DENIED any ideas on how I can access the raw disk for use by the virtual machine?

Hi,see thispost. Hope it helps. My English is not very well.

found some people on irc that helped. here is the url to the mailing list archive message I posted on the experience http://vbox.innotek.de/pipermail/vbox-users/2009-August/006868.html the solution isn't perfect but it works.

It seems this can be done using Linux, but not using Windows 7 Ultimate.