Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 09:59:41 -0500 (EST) From: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu> To: Peter Hornby <p.hornby@ned.dem.csiro.au> Cc: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Vmware2 on 4.1-RELEASE Message-ID: <14886.27359.274083.576046@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> In-Reply-To: <3A266A7F.FB8B67BA@ned.dem.csiro.au> References: <20001126180819.D19849@tmp.com.br> <4.2.0.58.20001127161355.009d1900@solo.ned.dem.csiro.au> <14882.33448.840576.154563@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <3A266A7F.FB8B67BA@ned.dem.csiro.au>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
Peter Hornby writes: > Andrew Gallatin wrote: > > > Peter Hornby writes: > > <..> > > > 1) Attempts to set all forms of physical/raw disk crash the vmware > > > configuration editor. This crash generally occurs when filling in the > > > <snip...> > > > > Have you tried reading /usr/local/share/doc/vmware/Hints.FreeBSD? > > Specifically, you should be using a "plain" disk. See Hints.FreeBSD > > for more details. > > <snip..> > > Thanx Drew. One more wrinkle. The following plain disk config > ========================= > DRIVETYPE ide > CYLINDERS 13410 > HEADS 15 > SECTORS 63 > > # Partition type: MBR > ACCESS "/home/truro1/peterho/vmware/hda/wd0.mbr" 0 63 > > # Partition type: Win95 FAT32 > ACCESS "/dev/rwd0s1" 63 4096512 > > # Partition type: Win95 FAT32 > ACCESS "/dev/rwd0s5" 4096575 4289292 > > # Partition type: Win95 FAT32 > ACCESS "/dev/rwd0s6" 8385867 4273227 > > # Partition type: Padding > RDONLY "/dev/null" 12659094 13356 > ========================== > > Only links in the first partition into the device chain in the VM (ie. windows > only sees the first partition). > The workaround is ugly but obvious, define three plain disks. That works, so the > partitions are all OK etc.. > Am I being stupid? or is this a bug? I really don't know -- I've never used more than one windows partition. Uhm.. Are rwd0s5 and rwd0s6 extended partitions? Can FreeBSD even see extended partitions? Eg, can you mount -t msdos them? If FreeBSD can't see them, then VMware running under FreeBSD can't see them. Drew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?14886.27359.274083.576046>