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Date:      Fri, 21 Apr 2006 20:44:58 -1000
From:      Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
To:        Josef Karthauser <joe@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: vmware3 on FreeBSD 6 and raw disks?
Message-ID:  <4449D0EA.9070105@psg.com>
In-Reply-To: <20060421091534.GA11958@genius.tao.org.uk>
References:  <20051121150641.GA714@genius.tao.org.uk>	<20060417162115.GJ42376@genius.tao.org.uk>	<20060419133708.GA946@genius.tao.org.uk> <20060421091534.GA11958@genius.tao.org.uk>

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> For the record, I now know why raw disks don't work for FreeBSD 6
> any more.  The code that was put in the linuxlator to gloss over
> the fact that linux drives are block devices, but that we don't
> have block devices any more, was disabled in sys/compat/linux/linux_stats.c
> by phk on 15-Mar-05!  I'll try and get it reinstated.

do shout if you ever get this working.  i have been carrying two 
laptops, one freebsd and one windoze, for almost two years because of this.

randy



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