Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2003 02:49:58 +0200 From: Siegbert Baude <Siegbert.Baude@gmx.de> To: "Timms, Simon" <STimms@petro-canada.ca> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD in Windows..... Message-ID: <3F74DEB6.4090801@gmx.de> In-Reply-To: <BB28669D4974D311B4A00008C75D1CF910FB88BB@pcaxs02.pcacorp.net> References: <BB28669D4974D311B4A00008C75D1CF910FB88BB@pcaxs02.pcacorp.net>
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>>What about installing vmware (on XP), then install FreeBSD in vmware, >>and mounting it that way? Maybe a lot of trouble, but at least he'd be >>able to get at the data. > If my understanding of vmware is correct that shouldn't work, couldn't work. > Vmware is just an x86 emulator which sits on top of windows, the OS working > in VMware should be unaware that it is running in an emulator and shouldn't > have direct access to any of the host computer's resources. If the host system > is unable to mount a file system then the operating system in vmware should > also be unable to mount it. First because it is unaware that it exists and > second because vmware uses the host system's resources and anything which is > inaccessible to the host system would also be inaccessible to the emulated > system. It is possible, as VMWare allows the guest systems direct access to the disks. I did complete buildworlds within VMWare on the same file system I use, when I boot FBSD directly. There is also generic SCSI-Support which allows access to SCSI-devices for the guest system. Ciao Siegbert
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