Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2005 21:59:22 +0300 From: Vladimir Grebenschikov <vova@fbsd.ru> To: John Mitchell <jmitchell@mitchell.homeunix.org> Cc: FreeBSD Emulation <freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: emulators/vmware3 and a physical disk on 5-STABLE Message-ID: <1111517962.1198.11.camel@localhost> In-Reply-To: <20050322165008.GA85869@mitchell.homeunix.org> References: <20050322165008.GA85869@mitchell.homeunix.org>
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=F7 =D7=D4, 22/03/2005 =D7 11:50 -0500, John Mitchell =D0=C9=DB=C5=D4: >Hello all, > >I was wondering of anyone knew the _right way_ to set up vmware >to use a physical disk and install Windows 2000 Professional. > >I've made all the devices in /usr/compat/linux/dev/ and still I >get invalid device errors and startup fails. It was tricky starting from VmWare2, I've succeed with it on vmware2 and on earlier versions of vmware3 (it my previous notebook). I've used manually configured disks description, like: # cat .vmware/VAIO/ad0 #vm|TOOLSVERSION 0 DRIVETYPE ide #vm|VERSION 2 CYLINDERS 116280 HEADS 16 SECTORS 63 #vm|CAPACITY 117210240 ACCESS "../VAIO/ad01.dat" 0 70 ACCESS "/dev/ad0s1" 70 31487330 RDONLY "/dev/ad0s2" 31487400 62910540 ACCESS "/dev/ad0s3" 94397940 22812300 But last time when I tried it works bad (real system won't boot, It reads boot sector, but can't read entire drive validly). I even try to diagnose problem and load fbsd from CD inside vmware and tried to read raw-devices under fbsd - all looks good, but both win and fbsd refuses to boot from pseudo-disk with strange errors. Probably it is vmware BIOS problem -=20 "vmware BIOS is too old to boot from my real HDD ?" Any advise is appreciated. >Thanks in advance. > --=20 Vladimir B. Grebenchikov vova@fbsd.ru
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