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Your starting directory in Terminal is usually your home directory, which evaluates to /Users/USERNAME. If it reads something different for you, then use this instead. In most cases this will be identical for you, but chances are, that it’s not. The most important thing for us to work with, is the partition ID, which in my case reads “disk0s3” (first disk, 3rd slice). This will reveal the partition information. On the main window, click your Boot Camp partition first and the “Information” icon second.

My screen shots are from a german language OS X, but for the sake of demonstration purpose, this will be sufficient. For this you need to launch Disk Utility first. So, let’s start on looking up the partition information first. However, if your setup is only slightly different, you’re most likely doomed 😉 This is also one of the things I dislike about all the other posts on this topic (sorry guys, I’m just honest): Everyone tells you to do some shell magic trickery, like write access to the partition device files. Oh well, here’s some tech stuff to go through. For those not so familiar with it, here’s a howto.Īfter completing Windows 7 setup I first installed SP1 and all additional updates. My hard drive was split into a 80 GiB partition for OS X and a 40 GiB partition for Windows 7. I used the Boot Camp assistant to prepare the hard drive for installation. I’m not going to loose big words on this. Windows 7 SP 1 on Boot Camp partition (40 GiB).

PERMISSION PROBLEM ACCESSING THE FILE FOR THE MEDIUM VIRTUALBOX MAC PRO

Apple MacBook Pro 15″, February 2011 model, equipped with an 120 GiB SSD instead of a 500 GiB hard drive.

To begin with, here’s a short summary of my specs:

I’m not trying to duplicate, my focus is to show what I had to do to get my setup working for me. So my today’s post will be sort of an aggregate of all these posts before. The best and most complete one is IMHO luckypiplav’s howto, as it already covers most of the issues and caveats.

PERMISSION PROBLEM ACCESSING THE FILE FOR THE MEDIUM VIRTUALBOX MAC FOR FREE

How to run Windows 7 under Mac OS X 10.6 for free.

Windows7 in OSX with Bootcamp and Virtualbox.

Windows 7 Bootcamp Installation mit Virtual Box nutzen (in german).

Windows 7 on Mac OS X through Virtual Box.

So, after I got my new MacBook Pro, equipped with an SSD, I decided to go for it and share the Boot Camp partition between Windows 7 running natively and VirtualBox.Īctually, there exist a lot of posts on this topic already. Well, what a waste of valuable disk space. So I had the same Windows installed again within VirtualBox. On the other hand, I use OS X for my primary work, but again, sometimes there’s no way around Windows. The reason for it being simple: I need it for some games 😉 I always used to have Windows installed through Boot Camp on my MacBook Pro.