Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2003 00:47:26 +0100 From: Lewis Thompson <purple@lewiz.net> To: FreeBSD-questions <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Odd vmware / vnconfig (?) configuration. Message-ID: <20030914234726.GA842@lewiz.org>
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--4Ckj6UjgE2iN1+kY Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi, This is quite a complicated setup, I think. I've got a single 80GB disk in my machine, which currently has Windows XP and FreeBSD installed. Since I only use WinXP from time-to-time I would like to be able to boot it from VMware3 WS (which is installed and working). FreeBSD is /dev/ad0s1 and WinXP is /dev/ad0s2. VMWare doesn't seem to like having the raw disk /dev/ad0 used. I'm guessing this is because I'm using that for FreeBSD at the same time. Therefore -- I wanted to know if it was possible to maybe provide a sort of symlink to /dev/ad0s2 that can be read as a file. I thought maybe vnconfig was the way to do this. If there are any VMWare xperts -- could it be possible that this ``file'' could be used as a raw disk? Anything to do this would be very helpful as I'm totally stuck. Thanks very much, -lewiz. --=20 I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now. --Bob Dylan, 1964. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -| msn:purple@lewiz.net | jab:lewiz@jabber.org | url:http://lewiz.net |- --4Ckj6UjgE2iN1+kY Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (FreeBSD) iD4DBQE/ZP4OItq0KFQv7T8RAmD5AJwPR6nzWftV/v7M+2hyhtd0vDvuagCYp++T jQI/gH7hTlBd5PWjWzx3jw== =+jLS -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --4Ckj6UjgE2iN1+kY--
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