From owner-freebsd-emulation Sat Sep 28 17: 9: 2 2002 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 4002A37B404 for ; Sat, 28 Sep 2002 17:08:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from CRWdog.demon.co.uk (slip-32-100-16-6.wa.us.prserv.net [32.100.16.6]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4DC2543E8A for ; Sat, 28 Sep 2002 17:08:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from spadger@best.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by CRWdog.demon.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 38DDC83; Fri, 27 Sep 2002 10:23:13 -0700 (PDT) X-Mailer: exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: Igor Sysoev Cc: Andy Sparrow , emulation@FreeBSD.ORG, andy@CRWdog.demon.co.uk Subject: Re: Getting VMWare to interchange files with host? In-Reply-To: Message from Igor Sysoev of "Fri, 27 Sep 2002 13:21:29 +0400." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="==_Exmh_178412496P"; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2002 10:23:12 -0700 From: Andy Sparrow Message-Id: <20020927172313.38DDC83@CRWdog.demon.co.uk> Sender: owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org --==_Exmh_178412496P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii 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 --==_Exmh_178412496P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----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----- --==_Exmh_178412496P-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message