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Subject: Re: vmware3 on FreeBSD 6 and raw disks?
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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.

do shout if you ever get this working.  i have been carrying two 
laptops, one freebsd and one windoze, for almost two years because of this.

randy