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Date:      Fri, 09 Jun 2006 17:54:18 +0200
From:      Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net>
To:        Xavier Otazu <xotazu@cvc.uab.es>
Cc:        freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: vmware cannot detect physical hard drive
Message-ID:  <20060609175418.mebmyi3pwooo04kw@netchild.homeip.net>
In-Reply-To: <20060609141811.468d9cfd@cvc131.uab.es>
References:  <20060609120037.D201016A4EC@hub.freebsd.org> <20060609141811.468d9cfd@cvc131.uab.es>

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Quoting Xavier Otazu <xotazu@cvc.uab.es> (from Fri, 09 Jun 2006  
14:18:11 +0200):

>
>
> 	Hello:
>
> 	When trying to configure a virutal machine using vmware3, I
> tell it to use a physical drive, but it tells that /dev/hda is not
> present.
>
> 	I have activated linproc, and a /compat/linux/dev/hda

linprocfs is not related to /dev.

> file was created afeter installing vmware. I've also loaded aio.ko as

A guess: "rm -rf /compat/linux/dev" and try to use /dev/ad0 (or da0 if  
it's a SCSI drive).

Bye,
Alexander.

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