vmware3 on FreeBSD 6 and raw disks?

[Josef Karthauser]

Is there anyone here using vmware on FreeBSD 6?  I can't get raw disk
support to work.  Is this just my setup, or is this universal?  I'd
really appreciate some feed back.  If you're not using raw disks, how
are you using vmware3?  Do you have tips on how to boot off a drive
image in a file?

Joe

On Mon, Apr 17, 2006 at 05:21:15PM +0100, Josef Karthauser wrote:
> Does anyone have a solution for this yet?
> 
> Joe
> 
> On Mon, Nov 21, 2005 at 03:06:41PM +0000, Josef Karthauser wrote:
> > I'm happy to see that vmware3 now compiles on FreeBSD 6 and an looking
> > forward to using it again.  However, when I start it I get:
> > 
> >     Unable to open either the disk '/dev/md0'....
> > 
> > Strange.  I used to be able to used a memory disk for my files under
> > FreeBSD 5.  Doesn't anyone know what's going on?
> > 
> > For reference:
> > 
> >     genius% ls -ld /dev/md0
> >     crw-rw-rw-  1 root  operator    0, 130 Nov 21 12:12 /dev/md0
> >     genius% id
> >     uid=100(joe) gid=100(joe) groups=100(joe), 0(wheel), 5(operator), 68(dialer)
> > 
> > and it's definitely a good disk:
> > 
> >     genius# mount_ntfs /dev/md0s1 /mnt
> >     genius# ls /mnt
> >     $AttrDef                  $Volume                   Program Files
> >     $BadClus                  AUTOEXEC.BAT              RECYCLER
> >     $Bitmap                   Binaries                  System Volume Information
> >     $Boot                     CONFIG.SYS                WINDOWS
> >     $Extend                   Documents and Settings    Websites
> >     $LogFile                  IO.SYS                    boot.ini
> >     $MFTMirr                  Inetpub                   clj4500
> >     $Secure                   MSDOS.SYS                 ntldr
> >     $UpCase                   NTDETECT.COM              pagefile.sys
> > 
> > And also:
> > 
> >     genius# ls -l /compat/linux/dev/md*
> >     lrwxrwxrwx  1 root  wheel  8 Dec  7  2004 /compat/linux/dev/md0 -> /dev/md0
> > 
> > What gives?  Me confused.  It's not the block vs character device issue
> > again is it?   I thought that we'd fixed that ages ago... :(
> > 
> > Joe
> > -- 
> > Josef Karthauser (joe at tao.org.uk)	       http://www.josef-k.net/
> > FreeBSD (cvs meister, admin and hacker)     http://www.uk.FreeBSD.org/
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> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Josef Karthauser (joe at tao.org.uk)	       http://www.josef-k.net/
> FreeBSD (cvs meister, admin and hacker)     http://www.uk.FreeBSD.org/
> Physics Particle Theory (student)   http://www.pact.cpes.sussex.ac.uk/
> ================ An eclectic mix of fact and theory. =================



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Josef Karthauser (joe at tao.org.uk)	       http://www.josef-k.net/
Physics Particle Theory (student)   http://www.pact.cpes.sussex.ac.uk/
================ An eclectic mix of fact and theory. =================
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