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I have created a bootable usb and created a virtual box raw disk with the following command-

sudo VBoxManage internalcommands createrawvmdk -filename popliveusb.vmdk -rawdisk /dev/sdd1

But when I was adding raw disk to my virtual machine's storage, I was getting VERR_ACCESS_DENIED error. Then I followed this solution. I changed the owner using this command sudo chown eh54n:eh54n popliveusb.vmdk. Then added my user to disk group using this command sudo usermod -a -G disk $USER.

But now I am getting VERR_FILE_NOT_FOUND error. This is the full error-

Failed to open the disk image file /home/eh54n/popliveusb.vmdk.

Could not find file for the medium '/home/eh54n/popliveusb.vmdk' (VERR_FILE_NOT_FOUND).

Result Code: VBOX_E_FILE_ERROR (0x80BB0004)
Component: MediumWrap
Interface: IMedium {ad47ad09-787b-44ab-b343-a082a3f2dfb1}
Callee: IVirtualBox {d0a0163f-e254-4e5b-a1f2-011cf991c38d}
Callee RC: VBOX_E_OBJECT_NOT_FOUND (0x80BB0001)

When I run the VirtualBox using sudo, I don't have my VMs. How can I add the vmdk raw disk to my VM?

Ehsanul Karim Pappu
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I found the problem. It was a rookie mistake. After creating the vmdk file I removed the usb stick. That's why the VM did not find the files. It was also mentioned in the VirtualBox Manual.

On a Linux host, to create an image that represents an entire physical hard disk which will not contain any actual data, as this will all be stored on the physical disk

Ehsanul Karim Pappu
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