Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 22:51:29 +0100 From: Ian Dowse <iedowse@maths.tcd.ie> To: K S Sreeram <sreeram@tachyontech.net> Cc: questions@freebsd.org, emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: VMWare plain disk Message-ID: <200105212251.aa64563@salmon.maths.tcd.ie> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 21 May 2001 17:23:16 %2B0530." <01052117231608.00615@ks.tachyon.tech>
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In message <01052117231608.00615@ks.tachyon.tech>, K S Sreeram writes: >It doesnt work.. > >i created the plain disk using the configuration editor in vmware. I created >a 3GB plain disk, and vmware created 2 files (win981.dat and win982.dat), >each being 1.5GB. I guest its not working because the partitions in the disk >are not at the beginning of the file. Hmm, I guess this may be because VMware is limited by the Linux file size limits - you just created one 3GB partition on the vmware disk, right? I certainly got this to work fine with a 2Gb plain VMware disk, but VMWare produced only one file then. BTW, I think '-s labels' bit may have been wrong in the previous commands. The commands should probably have been (cd /dev; sh MAKEDEV vn0) vnconfig -e /dev/vn0 /path/to/plain/disk mkdir /vmdisk mount -t msdos /dev/vn0s1 /vmdisk ... umount /vmdisk vnconfig -u /dev/vn0 Ian (PS when something doesn't work, please try to post exactly what you typed and exact error messages; this will usually result in responses that are more relevant and correct). To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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