From owner-freebsd-emulation Thu Oct 3 8:25:46 2002 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 92DF537B404 for ; Thu, 3 Oct 2002 08:25:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rip.psg.com (rip.psg.com [147.28.0.39]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 56B2843E4A for ; Thu, 3 Oct 2002 08:25:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from randy@psg.com) Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=rip.psg.com.psg.com) by rip.psg.com with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 17x7rD-0008mC-00; Thu, 03 Oct 2002 08:25:43 -0700 From: Randy Bush MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Bruce Evans Cc: emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: vmware reads disk on non-sector boundary References: <20021003081152.GB584@laptop.6bone.nl> <20021003214616.B3519-100000@gamplex.bde.org> Message-Id: Date: Thu, 03 Oct 2002 08:25:43 -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > Unbreaking block devices would be a better solution. for those of us o who *must* use vmware/windoze and o occasionally need to be able to dual boot as all devices can not be virtualized my understanding is that raw partitions must work, and must work well. and further that block devices are needed to implement this. please don't drive us to linux. lack of vm3 support, and the rude response to offers to help with it, are bad enough already. randy To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message