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Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2000 14:01:35 -0500 (CDT)
From: H.Paul Hammann <hpaul@hammann.com>
To: emulation@freebsd.org
Subject: VMware unrecognized disk error.
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   Sorry for the length.

   I've got a spiffy fresh FreeBSD 4.x-STABLE build with the latest
VMware port as of 24 July 2000.  I followed the advice in
/usr/local/share/doc/vmware/Hints.FreeBSD.  Unfortunately, I get the
following dialog box when I try to power on the virtual machine:

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
|    VMware Workstation Error (/home/hpaul/vmware/win2000/win2000.cfg)      |
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
|                                                                           |
|  "/home/hpaul/vmware/win2000/win2000.hda" is not a recognized disk type.  |
|  Failed to configure ide0:0.                                              |
|                                                                           |
|  The virtual machine cannot be powered on with an unconfigured disk       |
|                                                                           |
|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|                                 ----                                      |
|                                 |OK|                                      |
|                                 ----                                      |
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------

   I've included my config files below.  I'm sure I've made some
boneheaded mistake and if someone could point it out I'd be most
appreciative.  Thanks in advance!

   Here's an expert from my win2000.log:

==============================================================================
. . .
Jul 26 11:25:43: Forking AIO IDE0:0 pid=14482 sharedArea=0x1889a000 size=0x2000
Jul 26 11:25:43: DISK: OPEN IDE 0:0 /home/hpaul/vmware/win2000/win2000.hda persistent
Jul 26 11:25:43: Msg_Post Error: msg.disk.notConfigured
"/home/hpaul/vmware/win2000/win2000.hda" is not a recognized disk type.
Failed to configure ide0:0.

The virtual machine cannot be powered on with an unconfigured disk.
Jul 26 11:25:49: Poweron failed at module 26
. . .
==============================================================================



   Here's my win2000.hda file:

==============================================================================
DRIVETYPE	ide
CYLINDERS	23392
HEADS		16
SECTORS		63
# DEVICE /dev/hda

# ad0: 11513MB <IBM-DARA-212000> [23392/16/63] at ata0-master using UDMA33
#
# The geometry must be the physical geometry reported by the disk.
# grep ad0 /var/run/dmesg.boot and look for the 3 numbers in the
# brackets. They are the C/H/S.

# Partition type: MBR                      # Master Boot Record
NO_ACCESS "/dev/null" 0 62
# Partition type: Unknown                  # Suspend to memory partition
NO_ACCESS "/dev/null" 63 695519
# Partition type: Win95 FAT32              # Original win2k partition that came on laptop
NO_ACCESS "/dev/null" 695520 4883759
# Partition type: BSD/386                  # FreeBSD
NO_ACCESS "/dev/null" 4883760 15119999
# Partition type: OS/2 HPFS                # A new win2k partition that I'm trying to use under VMware
ACCESS "/dev/ad0s4" 15120000 23572079
==============================================================================


   Here's my win2000.cfg file:

==============================================================================
#!/usr/local/lib/vmware/bin/vmware
config.version = 2

# CD-ROM
ide1:0.present = TRUE
ide1:0.fileName = /dev/cdrom
ide1:0.deviceType = atapi-cdrom
ide1:0.startConnected = FALSE

# Raw hard disk /dev/hda
ide0:0.present = TRUE
ide0:0.fileName = /home/hpaul/vmware/win2000/win2000.hda
ide0:0.deviceType = rawDisk
ide0:0.mode = persistent

# Floppy
floppy0.present = TRUE
floppy0.fileName = /dev/rfd0
floppy0.startConnected = FALSE

# Networked to host only subnet 
ethernet0.present = TRUE
ethernet0.connectionType = hostOnly

# Memory size
memsize = 192

# Nvram
nvram = /home/hpaul/vmware/win2000/win2000.nvram

# Log file
log.fileName = /home/hpaul/vmware/win2000/win2000.log

# Hints
guestOS = win2000

# SVGA
PciSvgaDynamic = TRUE
==============================================================================

Regards, 

H. Paul Hammann
hpaul@hammann.com


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