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[ubuntu] VirtualBox Windows7 won't start

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Hi,
I am running linux and windows 7 as dualboot.
Since I very rarely use windows I tried to access it by starting it with VirtualBox.
These are the steps I took:
  • Installed VirtualBox
  • Entered this code to create a file pointing to my harddrive where sda6 is the partition windows is on:
    Code:

    sudo VBoxManage internalcommands createrawvmdk -filename "windows.vmdk" -rawdisk /dev/sda6
  • Created new virtual machine with windows.vmdk as source
  • Started the machine


Sadly it won't start and I have no idea why.
I run VirtualBox as sudo since I do not have permission to use the vmdk-file as user (VERR_ACCESS_DENIED)

Last log is this:
Code:

00:00:02.968116 Guest Log: BIOS: Booting from Hard Disk...
From there it won't go further.

I am running linux from the same SSD. Might that be part of the problem?

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