VMWare 3 Howto?

Manfred Riem mriem at win.tue.nl
Wed Nov 12 14:55:14 PST 2003


Hi Randy,

Would this also work on 5.1-CURRENT?

Manfred.


> >> Does anyone have a VMWare 3 HOWTO to share? Especially
> >> how to configure running a Guest OS from a raw disk?
> > My understanding is that raw disk does not work at all 
> > since there is 
> > no block device in FreeBSD.
> 
> not true in 4.9
> 
> rm /usr/compat/linux/dev/hda
> mknod /usr/compat/linux/dev/hda b 30 0x00010002 foo:wheel
> rm /usr/compat/linux/dev/hdb
> mknod /usr/compat/linux/dev/hdb b 30 0x0001000a foo:wheel




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