From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Sep 26 17:50:00 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D5F216A4B3 for ; Fri, 26 Sep 2003 17:50:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.rz.uni-ulm.de (gemini.rz.uni-ulm.de [134.60.246.16]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB09F44014 for ; Fri, 26 Sep 2003 17:49:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Siegbert.Baude@gmx.de) Received: from gmx.de (lilith.wh-wurm.uni-ulm.de [134.60.106.64]) by mail.rz.uni-ulm.de (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id h8R0ntck012109 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Sat, 27 Sep 2003 02:49:56 +0200 (MEST) Message-ID: <3F74DEB6.4090801@gmx.de> Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2003 02:49:58 +0200 From: Siegbert Baude User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de-DE; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20030914 Thunderbird/0.3a X-Accept-Language: de-de, de-at, de, en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Timms, Simon" References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-DCC-MessageCare-Metrics: gemini 1108; Body=3 Fuz1=3 Fuz2=3 cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD in Windows..... X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2003 00:50:00 -0000 >>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