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Date:      Wed, 12 Nov 2003 16:30:02 -0600
From:      Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
To:        Naoyuki Tai <ntai@smartfruit.com>
Cc:        freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: VMWare 3 Howto?
Message-ID:  <E1AK3Ux-0001M7-8I@roam.psg.com>
References:  <003501c3a92d$29071ba0$14469b83@master> <36713586-155F-11D8-8C80-000393D763BE@smartfruit.com>

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>> Does anyone have a VMWare 3 HOWTO to share? Especially
>> how to configure running a Guest OS from a raw disk?
> My understanding is that raw disk does not work at all since there is no
> block device in FreeBSD.

not true in 4.9

rm /usr/compat/linux/dev/hda
mknod /usr/compat/linux/dev/hda b 30 0x00010002 foo:wheel
rm /usr/compat/linux/dev/hdb
mknod /usr/compat/linux/dev/hdb b 30 0x0001000a foo:wheel



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