From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Sep 14 16:47:43 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6984E16A4C0 for ; Sun, 14 Sep 2003 16:47:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from lon1-mail-2.visp.demon.net (lon1-mail-2.visp.demon.net [193.195.70.5]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AFD1143FA3 for ; Sun, 14 Sep 2003 16:47:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from lewiz@black.lewiz.org) Received: from mail.lewiz.org (host-70a-en-u-156.dial.beeb.net [62.56.2.156] (may be forged))3.2.1-GA) with ESMTP id AMG08166; Mon, 15 Sep 2003 00:47:38 +0100 (BST) Received: from black.lewiz.org ([192.168.0.12]) by mail.lewiz.org with smtp (Exim 4.20) id 19ygaS-0001W9-B6 for questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 15 Sep 2003 00:47:24 +0100 Received: (nullmailer pid 903 invoked by uid 4001); Sun, 14 Sep 2003 23:47:26 -0000 Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2003 00:47:26 +0100 From: Lewis Thompson To: FreeBSD-questions Message-ID: <20030914234726.GA842@lewiz.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="4Ckj6UjgE2iN1+kY" Content-Disposition: inline X-GPG-Fingerprint: 90A4 939E 3847 A3E4 8103 2A48 22DA B428 542F ED3F X-GPG-Info: http://www.westwood.karoo.net/pgpkey / horowitz.surfnet.nl User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i X-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-MailScanner: Found to be clean Subject: Odd vmware / vnconfig (?) configuration. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2003 23:47:43 -0000 --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--