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From: Peter Hornby <p.hornby@ned.dem.csiro.au>
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To: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>
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Subject: Re: Vmware2 on 4.1-RELEASE
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Andrew Gallatin wrote:

> Peter Hornby writes:
> <..>
>  > 1) Attempts to set all forms of physical/raw disk crash the vmware
>  > configuration editor. This crash generally occurs when filling in the
>  > <snip...>
>
> Have you tried reading /usr/local/share/doc/vmware/Hints.FreeBSD?
> Specifically, you should be using a "plain" disk.  See Hints.FreeBSD
> for more details.
> <snip..>

Thanx Drew. One more wrinkle. The following plain disk config
=========================
DRIVETYPE      ide
CYLINDERS  13410
HEADS         15
SECTORS       63

# Partition type: MBR
ACCESS "/home/truro1/peterho/vmware/hda/wd0.mbr" 0 63

# Partition type: Win95 FAT32
ACCESS "/dev/rwd0s1" 63 4096512

# Partition type: Win95 FAT32
ACCESS "/dev/rwd0s5" 4096575 4289292

# Partition type: Win95 FAT32
ACCESS "/dev/rwd0s6" 8385867 4273227

# Partition type: Padding
RDONLY "/dev/null" 12659094 13356
==========================

Only links in the first partition into the device chain in the VM (ie. windows
only sees the first partition).
The workaround is ugly but obvious, define three plain disks. That works, so the
partitions are all OK etc..
Am I being stupid? or is this a bug?




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