Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 17:39:51 -0800 From: Nick Sayer <nsayer@sftw.com> To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: vmware 2.0 raw disk workaround -- plain disks Message-ID: <38E2B066.367F1E77@sftw.com> References: <38E2A8A6.21221B6C@sftw.com>
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I hate it when I get almost there, post, then find the answer. :-) In order to make this work, I had to specify the actual reported geometry, not the BIOS faked one. In this case, it's 16383/16/63. I suspect that the actual solution is to specify a geometry large enough that the BIOS ends up using the same phony geometry (*/255/63) that the host BIOS (that is, the real machine) uses. Just to keep everyone sane, I have for now added /dev/rad0s2 as an RDONLY section in the correct place. I may try and remove that and see what VMware does when a plain disk is not fully occupied. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message
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