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Subject: ports/28030: VMware requires block device for linux /dev/hda
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>Number:         28030
>Category:       ports
>Synopsis:       VMware requires block device for linux /dev/hda
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-ports
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Mon Jun 11 00:40:00 PDT 2001
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Erwan Arzur
>Release:        4.3-stable
>Organization:
>Environment:
FreeBSD amelie.arzur.net 4.3-STABLE FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE #3: Mon Jun  4 20:25:35 CEST 2001     root@amelie.arzur.net:/spare1/obj/spare1/src/sys/AMELIE  i386
>Description:
when starting VMWare 2, configured with the attached configuration,

"Failed to open rawdisk /dev/hda, not a raw device.
The device specified by the safe raw disk is not a raw disk
failed to configure ide0:1

The virtual machine cannot bla-bla-bla ...

When it used to work perfectly ...
>How-To-Repeat:
vmware configuration :
#!/usr/local/lib/vmware/bin/vmware
config.version = "2"

# CD-ROM
ide1:0.present = TRUE
ide1:0.fileName = "/dev/acd0c"
ide1:0.deviceType = "atapi-cdrom"
ide1:0.startConnected = TRUE

# Raw hard disk /dev/hda
ide0:0.present = TRUE
ide0:0.fileName = "/oldfs/space4/vmware/disk1"
ide0:0.deviceType = "ata-hardDisk"
ide0:0.mode = "persistent"

# Floppy
floppy0.present = TRUE
floppy0.fileName = "/usr/local/lib/vmware/lib/floppies/windows.flp"
floppy0.startConnected = FALSE

# Networking bridged to real ethernet
ethernet0.present = TRUE
ethernet0.connectionType = "hostOnly"

# Memory size
memsize = 64

# Nvram
nvram = "/home/zuzur/vmware/win98/win98.nvram"

# Log file
log.fileName = "/home/zuzur/vmware/win98/win98.log"

# Hints
guestOS = "win98"

ide0:1.present = TRUE
ide0:1.deviceType = "rawDisk"
ide0:1.fileName = "/home/zuzur/vmware/win98/win98.hda"

toolsFloppyInserted = TRUE
floppy0.fileType = "file"
mouse.hostType = "PS/2"
mouse.fileName = "/dev/mouse"
sound.present = TRUE
sound.device = "/dev/dsp"
gui.controlShiftAlt = FALSE
gui.powerOnAtStartUp = FALSE
gui.fullScreenAtPowerOn = FALSE
apmSuspend = TRUE
suspendToDisk = TRUE
gui.exitAtPowerOff = FALSE
hard-disk.enableIBR = FALSE
gui.fullScreenResize = TRUE
logging = TRUE
debug = FALSE
redoLogDir = ""
tools.remindInstall = FALSE
save_floppy0.present = "true"
save_floppy0.fileName = "/dev/fd0"
save_floppy0.fileType = "device"
save_floppy0.startConnected = "true"
save_floppy0.connectedState = "true"

win98.hda :

DEVICE /dev/hda

# Partition type: MBR
RDONLY 0 62
# Partition type: FAT16
ACCESS 63 2457944
# Partition type: BSD/386
RDONLY 2457945 4546394
# Extended partition hole
RDONLY 4546395 4546457
# Partition type: FAT16
ACCESS 4546458 8739359
# Extended partition hole
RDONLY 8739360 8739422
# Partition type: FAT16
ACCESS 8739423 12932324
# Extended partition hole
RDONLY 12932325 12932387
# Partition type: FAT16
ACCESS 12932388 14795864
# Partition type: BSD/386
RDONLY 14795865 19743884



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