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Date:      Mon, 21 May 2001 12:37:46 +0100
From:      Ian Dowse <iedowse@maths.tcd.ie>
To:        K S Sreeram <sreeram@tachyontech.net>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org, emulation@freebsd.org, iedowse@maths.tcd.ie
Subject:   Re: VMWare plain disk 
Message-ID:   <200105211237.aa90748@salmon.maths.tcd.ie>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 20 May 2001 17:35:33 %2B0530." <01052017353303.00615@ks.tachyon.tech> 

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In message <01052017353303.00615@ks.tachyon.tech>, K S Sreeram writes:
>Hi
>
>Can somebody tell me how to locally mount a vmware plain disk, without using 
>vmware?

You could try using vnconfig: e.g.

	(cd /dev; sh MAKEDEV vn0)
	vnconfig -e -s labels /dev/vn0 /path/to/plain/disk
	mkdir /vmdisk
	mount -t msdos /dev/vn0s1 /vmdisk

and then when you're finished, use

	umount /vmdisk
	vnconfig -u /dev/vn0

Ian

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