From owner-freebsd-emulation Wed Mar 29 17:40:24 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Received: from guardian.sftw.com (guardian.sftw.com [209.157.37.25]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1935037B711 for ; Wed, 29 Mar 2000 17:39:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nsayer@sftw.com) Received: from yoda.sftw.com (yoda.sftw.com [209.157.37.211]) by guardian.sftw.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA72671 for ; Wed, 29 Mar 2000 17:39:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nsayer@sftw.com) Received: from sftw.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by yoda.sftw.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA06488 for ; Wed, 29 Mar 2000 17:39:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nsayer@sftw.com) Message-ID: <38E2B066.367F1E77@sftw.com> Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 17:39:51 -0800 From: Nick Sayer Reply-To: nsayer@quack.kfu.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: vmware 2.0 raw disk workaround -- plain disks References: <38E2A8A6.21221B6C@sftw.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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