Oracle VirtualBox

Running a dd-image in VirtualBox

VBoxManage convertfromraw imagefile.dd vmdkname.vmdk --format VMDK

Creating the image-file:

sudo dd if=/dev/sda1 of=imagefile.dd

In short:

sudo VBoxManage internalcommands createrawvmdk -filename /mount/mydisk.vmdk -rawdisk /dev/sdc

run VirtualBox as root:
```
 sudo virtualbox 
```
link your existing virtual machine or create a new virtual machine with that virtual disk
set medium attribute to writethrough (File → Virtual Media Manager → mydisk.vmdk)