Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2002 10:23:12 -0700 From: Andy Sparrow <spadger@best.com> To: Igor Sysoev <is@rambler-co.ru> Cc: Andy Sparrow <spadger@best.com>, emulation@FreeBSD.ORG, andy@CRWdog.demon.co.uk Subject: Re: Getting VMWare to interchange files with host? Message-ID: <20020927172313.38DDC83@CRWdog.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: Message from Igor Sysoev <is@rambler-co.ru> of "Fri, 27 Sep 2002 13:21:29 %2B0400." <Pine.BSF.4.21.0209271316260.85068-100000@is>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] Hey Igor, > > I can create a VMWare Plain Disk, but I can't seem to mount that > > under FreeBSD... > > Your Plain Disk should contain two parts. Here is example: > > DRIVETYPE ide > CYLINDERS 1041 > HEADS 16 > SECTORS 63 > ACCESS "/home/vmware/nt4.mbr" 0 63 > ACCESS "/home/vmware/nt41.dat" 63 1049328 > > First, nt4.mbr contains partition table. > Second, nt41.dat is partition that can be mounted under FreeBSD. Hmm. I had tried that, but 'Doze wouldn't seem to recognise the disk until I did the fdisk/format thing, and afterwards I had an MBR at the beginning of the second file too... I realized I could extract the actual partition minus the MBR with dd and the 'skip=63' incantation (and then frob it back over the top afterwards) and this worked, but was kind of annoying. In fact I did the whole "define it in VMware" thing all over again, and this time the Plain disk Just Works with vnconfig/mount_msdos. I don't know what I did wrong the first few times (yup, I was using the "-s labels" argument). I /hate/ that. :-/ > > Networking (bridged mode via 'vmnet1') works fine, but I can't ping > > the BSD host from the guest OS, or vice-versa, so I can't use (e.g.) > > Samba to share files from the BSD host to the Win guest. > > Strange, I'm using bridged mode on 4.2 and host-only on 4.3 without problems. Gaah. I had tried this at regular intervals over the last two years, with precisely the same results. I went to refresh my memory as to precisely what didn't seem to work for me (I seem to recall that the host would ARP for the guest on the default, e.g. ethernet, interface and never see the replies), but, uh, it Just Worked, despite having precisely the same configuration I've been running since August 2000 (modulo the OS and relevant ports having been updated quite regularly. Err, wow, it all works. Huh, I guess I'll just shut up now... :-) Thanks for the reply. Regards, AS [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (FreeBSD) Comment: Exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 iD8DBQE9lJQAPHh895bDXeQRAmX9AJ9fORObyOt6vyV76U+O+bvTyxSrkACgxABd jnj/L0Z4AFf9+bvxYch+byQ= =N7Fy -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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