Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 14:40:44 +0900 From: "Akinori -Aki- MUSHA" <knu@idaemons.org> To: frank@exit.com Cc: emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: VMware 2.0 problems. Message-ID: <86g0r7gpb7.wl@localhost.local.idaemons.org> In-Reply-To: In your message of "Wed, 24 May 2000 20:35:27 -0700 (PDT)" <200005250335.UAA08816@realtime.exit.com> References: <86hfbngvsm.wl@localhost.local.idaemons.org> <200005250335.UAA08816@realtime.exit.com>
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At Wed, 24 May 2000 20:35:27 -0700 (PDT),
Frank Mayhar <frank@exit.com> wrote:
> My root is on /dev/da0s2a. That's what the RDONLY you elided covered.
Specifying a non-root partition by "a" would be improper anyway.
> > I think you should specify that slice by just /dev/da0s1, with no
> > trailing disklabel.
>
> I've tried that. _That_ gives me:
(snip)
Then, how about using a raw slice "/dev/rda0s1" ?
> > The message says it all. You got refused to commit write access on
> > the device just because you didn't have write permission.
>
> I'm not naive, I covered that. Got the above crash. I just want to know
> if anyone has gotten vmware working in a similar environment and if so,
> how.
Nick have the knack of it. It was him who wrote "setting up a plain
disk as a workaround for the broken raw disks" section of
Hints.FreeBSD.
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