From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 4 12: 9: 7 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fac13.ds.psu.edu (fac13.ds.psu.edu [146.186.61.98]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D480537B405 for ; Tue, 4 Sep 2001 12:08:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from fac13.ds.psu.edu (localhost.ds.psu.edu [127.0.0.1]) by fac13.ds.psu.edu (8.11.6/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f84JIQe44123; Tue, 4 Sep 2001 15:18:35 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from hawk@fac13.ds.psu.edu) Message-Id: <200109041918.f84JIQe44123@fac13.ds.psu.edu> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.3.1 01/18/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: David Dooley Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Vmware and real disk In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 04 Sep 2001 11:45:06 BST." <200109041045.f84Aj6R53851@arrow.lan.raffles-it.com> From: dochawk@psu.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 04 Sep 2001 15:18:26 -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG David diddled, > > I tried in the past to create a vmware virtual environment using a > real disk partition but had no joy. Has anyone been able to to this > and if so how? The user must have write access to the device. Check out accesses in /compat/linux/dev > The second part of this, if it is possible to create a > virtual machine on a real partition is it possible to boot that > partition/os natively as well as under a vmware instance. generally not, at least not with full functionality. The hardware configuration is different for vmware and your machine--vmware provides a specific set of "hardware" to the machine, while booting natively you use whatever you actually have. hawk -- Prof. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. /"\ ASCII ribbon campaign dochawk@psu.edu Smeal 178 (814) 375-4700 \ / against HTML mail These opinions will not be those of X and postings Penn State until it pays my retainer. / \ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message