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Subject: Re: VMWare 3 Howto?
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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