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From: Naoyuki Tai <ntai@smartfruit.com>
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On Nov 12, 2003, at 9:56 AM, Manfred Riem wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Does anyone have a VMWare 3 HOWTO to share? Especially
> how to configure running a Guest OS from a raw disk?
>
> Manfred.

My understanding is that raw disk does not work at all since there is no
block device in FreeBSD.

It would be awfully nice if someone writes a block device emulation but
I'd not hold my breath for that.
Or, you could try OpenBSD.


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