From owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 22 18:59:28 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0218016A4CE for ; Tue, 22 Mar 2005 18:59:27 +0000 (GMT) Received: from vbook.fbsd.ru (user184.hovrino.net [82.179.232.184]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C63A43D55 for ; Tue, 22 Mar 2005 18:59:27 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from vova@vbook.fbsd.ru) Received: from vova by vbook.fbsd.ru with local (Exim 4.50 (FreeBSD)) id 1DDob4-0001kO-T6; Tue, 22 Mar 2005 21:59:22 +0300 From: Vladimir Grebenschikov To: John Mitchell In-Reply-To: <20050322165008.GA85869@mitchell.homeunix.org> References: <20050322165008.GA85869@mitchell.homeunix.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=KOI8-R Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Organization: SWsoft Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2005 21:59:22 +0300 Message-Id: <1111517962.1198.11.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.1.5 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port Sender: Vladimir Grebenschikov cc: FreeBSD Emulation Subject: Re: emulators/vmware3 and a physical disk on 5-STABLE X-BeenThere: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: vova@fbsd.ru List-Id: Development of Emulators of other operating systems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2005 18:59:28 -0000 =F7 =D7=D4, 22/03/2005 =D7 11:50 -0500, John Mitchell =D0=C9=DB=C5=D4: >Hello all, > >I was wondering of anyone knew the _right way_ to set up vmware >to use a physical disk and install Windows 2000 Professional. > >I've made all the devices in /usr/compat/linux/dev/ and still I >get invalid device errors and startup fails. It was tricky starting from VmWare2, I've succeed with it on vmware2 and on earlier versions of vmware3 (it my previous notebook). I've used manually configured disks description, like: # cat .vmware/VAIO/ad0 #vm|TOOLSVERSION 0 DRIVETYPE ide #vm|VERSION 2 CYLINDERS 116280 HEADS 16 SECTORS 63 #vm|CAPACITY 117210240 ACCESS "../VAIO/ad01.dat" 0 70 ACCESS "/dev/ad0s1" 70 31487330 RDONLY "/dev/ad0s2" 31487400 62910540 ACCESS "/dev/ad0s3" 94397940 22812300 But last time when I tried it works bad (real system won't boot, It reads boot sector, but can't read entire drive validly). I even try to diagnose problem and load fbsd from CD inside vmware and tried to read raw-devices under fbsd - all looks good, but both win and fbsd refuses to boot from pseudo-disk with strange errors. Probably it is vmware BIOS problem -=20 "vmware BIOS is too old to boot from my real HDD ?" Any advise is appreciated. >Thanks in advance. > --=20 Vladimir B. Grebenchikov vova@fbsd.ru