Date: Tue, 04 Sep 2001 15:18:26 -0400 From: dochawk@psu.edu To: David Dooley <dpd@raffles-it.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Vmware and real disk Message-ID: <200109041918.f84JIQe44123@fac13.ds.psu.edu> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 04 Sep 2001 11:45:06 BST." <200109041045.f84Aj6R53851@arrow.lan.raffles-it.com>
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David diddled, > > I tried in the past to create a vmware virtual environment using a > real disk partition but had no joy. Has anyone been able to to this > and if so how? The user must have write access to the device. Check out accesses in /compat/linux/dev > The second part of this, if it is possible to create a > virtual machine on a real partition is it possible to boot that > partition/os natively as well as under a vmware instance. generally not, at least not with full functionality. The hardware configuration is different for vmware and your machine--vmware provides a specific set of "hardware" to the machine, while booting natively you use whatever you actually have. hawk -- Prof. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. /"\ ASCII ribbon campaign dochawk@psu.edu Smeal 178 (814) 375-4700 \ / against HTML mail These opinions will not be those of X and postings Penn State until it pays my retainer. / \ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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