From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 16 13:58:34 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A38116A40F for ; Thu, 16 Nov 2006 13:58:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from xotazu@cvc.uab.es) Received: from istanbul.uab.es (istanbul.uab.es [158.109.168.138]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A3CD43D45 for ; Thu, 16 Nov 2006 13:58:33 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from xotazu@cvc.uab.es) Received: from istanbul.uab.es (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by istanbul.uab.es (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.1 HotFix 0.10 (built Jan 6 2005)) with ESMTP id <0J8T005HSRVIQT10@istanbul.uab.es> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 16 Nov 2006 14:23:42 +0100 (CET) Received: from cvc.uab.es ([158.109.4.2]) by istanbul.uab.es (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.1 HotFix 0.10 (built Jan 6 2005)) with SMTP id <0J8T005CURVHSJ10@istanbul.uab.es> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 16 Nov 2006 14:23:41 +0100 (CET) Received: from cvc131.uab.es by cvc.uab.es (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id OAA01941; Thu, 16 Nov 2006 14:20:38 +0100 Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2006 14:24:01 +0100 From: Xavier Otazu To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-id: <20061116142401.4644cf86@cvc131.uab.es> Organization: CVC MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 2.5.2 (GTK+ 2.8.11; i386-portbld-freebsd6.0) Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: vmware3 does not recognize hard disk raw device X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2006 13:58:34 -0000 Hello: I've installed vmware3 on freebsd 6.0 from fresh ports. When configuring a new virtual machine, it tells me that all the /dev/hd? devices (i.e. /compat/linux/devhd?) are not read/write. I made a soft link from this device (in /compat/linux/dev/hda) to /dev/ad0. Then it recognizes read/write acces. But when powering on the machine it tells me that it is not a raw device and it does not boot. I have crw-r----- 1 root operator 0, 86 Nov 13 12:02 /dev/ad0 and lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 8 Nov 9 21:21 /compat/linux/dev/hda@ -> /dev/ad0 The original hda device created by the port is brwxrwxrwx 1 root wheel 0, 0x00010002 Jun 12 21:12 /compat/linux/dev/hda_orig* I tried to create it using the minor and major characters 0 and 86, as in /dev/ad0, but it do not produce a working device. I have linux, aio, acpi and linprocfs modules loaded. The /dev/ad0 disk I wan to boot in vmware is different from the one in which FreeBSD is installed (/dev/ad3) Any suggestions? Thanks in advance Xavier