From owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 23 06:16:56 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D98B737B401 for ; Wed, 23 Apr 2003 06:16:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.udag.de (mail.udag.de [62.146.33.70]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 40D0543F3F for ; Wed, 23 Apr 2003 06:16:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cj@vdbonline.com) Received: from neurocyte.ima.slat.de (unknown [193.155.249.2]) by mail.udag.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D7AC8979 for ; Wed, 23 Apr 2003 15:17:05 +0200 (CEST) From: CJ van den Berg To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2003 15:20:12 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200304231520.13001.cj@vdbonline.com> Subject: Uncommited VMware raw disk support patch X-BeenThere: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Development of Emulators of other operating systems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2003 13:16:57 -0000 Hi all, while searching for details on setting up the plain disk workaround for raw disks not working in VMware on CURRENT I came across the uncommited kernel patch in pr kern/37227 that enables raw disk support: http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=kern/37227 I've patched my CURRENT box and it seems to work fine and I've booted off a raw partition several times. I'm going to try do more extensive testing tonight after I dump my partitions (just in case). Is anyone able to comment on why this has never been commited? Could it have possible nasty side effects or something? Maybe we could include it in the other uncommited patch that is nessesary to run the vmware3 port. Thanks, CJ van den Berg