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Date:      Fri, 21 Apr 2006 10:15:34 +0100
From:      Josef Karthauser <joe@FreeBSD.org>
To:        freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: vmware3 on FreeBSD 6 and raw disks?
Message-ID:  <20060421091534.GA11958@genius.tao.org.uk>
In-Reply-To: <20060419133708.GA946@genius.tao.org.uk>
References:  <20051121150641.GA714@genius.tao.org.uk> <20060417162115.GJ42376@genius.tao.org.uk> <20060419133708.GA946@genius.tao.org.uk>

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For the record, I now know why raw disks don't work for FreeBSD 6
any more.  The code that was put in the linuxlator to gloss over
the fact that linux drives are block devices, but that we don't
have block devices any more, was disabled in sys/compat/linux/linux_stats.c
by phk on 15-Mar-05!  I'll try and get it reinstated.

Joe

On Wed, Apr 19, 2006 at 02:37:08PM +0100, Josef Karthauser wrote:
> Is there anyone here using vmware on FreeBSD 6?  I can't get raw disk
> support to work.  Is this just my setup, or is this universal?  I'd
> really appreciate some feed back.  If you're not using raw disks, how
> are you using vmware3?  Do you have tips on how to boot off a drive
> image in a file?

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