[VBOX] Failure while attaching the physical hard drive to the guest

[Mario Lobo]

On Fri, 03 May 2013 23:34:42 -0700
Yuri <yuri at rawbw.com> wrote:

> On 05/03/2013 23:02, Bernhard Fröhlich wrote:
> > My first guess is that permissions for /dev/ada3 are not sufficient 
> > for your vbox user.
> 
> Changing permissions of /dev/ada3 to 0777 didn't change anything.
> But changing permissions of ada3.vmdk to 0777 changed the situation:
> now it fails with the message "Failed to open session", "No error
> info",
> 
> S_ERROR_CALL_FAILED (0x800706BE)
> And there is an assert in log:
> 00:00:01.267946 DrvBlock: Async flushes will be passed to the disk
> 00:00:01.268193 AIOMgr: Endpoint for file '/home/yuri/VirtualBox 
> VMs/Mint-mate-32/ada3.vmdk' (flags 00000723) created successfully
> 00:00:01.270518
> 00:00:01.270520 !!Assertion Failed!!
> 00:00:01.270521 Expression: stamR3SlashCompare(pPrev->pszName,
> pszName) < 0 00:00:01.270522 Location : 
> /usr/ports/emulators/virtualbox-ose/work/VirtualBox-4.2.6/src/VBox/VMM/VMMR3/STAM.cpp(632) 
> int stamR3RegisterU(UVM*, void*, void (*)(VM*, void*), void (*)(VM*, 
> void*, char*, size_t), STAMTYPE, STAMVISIBILITY, const char*,
> STAMUNIT, const char*)
> 
> 
> Yuri
> 
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Have you tried installing guest additions and sharing your drive
through the shared folders feature?

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