vmware3 on FreeBSD 6 and raw disks?

[Josef Karthauser]

Yay, I just managed to get vmware3 to boot my WinXP image from /dev/md0.
Huzzar!  I'll post a patch when I've tidied it up a bit.

Joe

p.s. there appears a network problem; when vmware starts up it displays
a message that I've never seen before: "invaid host-only ip address.
failyed to configure ethernet0".  If you've got a working network stack
with vmware under FreeBSD-6, can you please let me know?  Thanks

On Fri, Apr 21, 2006 at 10:15:34AM +0100, Josef Karthauser wrote:
> 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.
> 
> Joe
> 
> On Wed, Apr 19, 2006 at 02:37:08PM +0100, Josef Karthauser wrote:
> > 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?



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