Picking a partition for windows in Vmware
How/when do I tell Vmware to install Windows on the nice new fat32 partition I made for it? Thanks, Jerome
Susemail wrote:
How/when do I tell Vmware to install Windows on the nice new fat32 partition I made for it?
VMWare doesn't install the VM OS on a physical partition... it installs in a file that can be on any partition your host OS can see/use. C.
Clayton, On Wednesday 01 February 2006 01:53, Clayton wrote:
Susemail wrote:
How/when do I tell Vmware to install Windows on the nice new fat32 partition I made for it?
VMWare doesn't install the VM OS on a physical partition... it installs in a file that can be on any partition your host OS can see/use.
Not true. VMware can access physical drives (as a whole) or partitions. To the OP, the manual explains how to do this.
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Randall Schulz
Well, it _can_ use the partition, provided the partition is on a favored disk type (specifically _not_ SATA, not sure what the other restrictions are). But: 1) this isn't the "normal" mode of operation, you wouldn't do it that way unless you also want to be able to boot natively from that partition, or perhaps if the partition was pre-existing. 2) You don't install Windows from VMWare if you use a physical partition, you install it directly, and then kinda "import" the whole partition into VMWare. If you really want to do this, look up "physical" as in "physical device" or "physical partition" on VMWare's help site. (I abandoned it when I discovered my original windows install was on an unsupportable SATA drive--I'm now _more_ than happy with the normal install types (which, btw, use a dynamically allocated filespace for the virtual partition, so are much smaller). Cheers, Simon "You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions." Naguib Mahfouz __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
Simaon, On Wednesday 01 February 2006 06:19, Simon Roberts wrote:
Well, it _can_ use the partition, provided the partition is on a favored disk type (specifically _not_ SATA, not sure what the other restrictions are).
But: 1) this isn't the "normal" mode of operation, you wouldn't do it that way unless you also want to be able to boot natively from that partition, or perhaps if the partition was pre-existing. 2) You don't install Windows from VMWare if you use a physical partition, you install it directly, and then kinda "import" the whole partition into VMWare.
Not hardly! Installing windows on one hardware configuration (the physical hardware) and then running it on another (the VMware virtual hardware) is at best suboptimal, may immediately cause Windows to need to do more hardware-specific installations when run in the virtual environment or may fail to boot at all. It may also trigger the Windows hardware change mechanism, forcing you to re-register it with MS.
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Cheers, Simon
Randall Schulz
Susemail wrote:
How/when do I tell Vmware to install Windows on the nice new fat32 partition I made for it?
When you create a new VM, add "physical partition" as harddisk instead of "virtual disk file". Maybe this works only on some of the VMware products. There are ESX. GSX and workstation... -- Viele Grüße ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Michael
Michael Behrens wrote:
Susemail wrote:
How/when do I tell Vmware to install Windows on the nice new fat32 partition I made for it?
When you create a new VM, add "physical partition" as harddisk instead of "virtual disk file". Maybe this works only on some of the VMware products. There are ESX. GSX and workstation...
I stand corrected :-) When you do that you get loads of warnings about this being an advanced user option, and that you can seriously break things - make system non-bootable etc. The instructions on how to do it are here: http://www.vmware.com/support/ws4/doc/disks_instraw_ws.html Question to the original poster... why are you asking this question on a SUSE mailing list? Wouldn't this be better asked on VMWare support?? This isn't a SUSE problem is it? C.
On 01/02/06, Clayton
Michael Behrens wrote:
Susemail wrote:
How/when do I tell Vmware to install Windows on the nice new fat32 partition I made for it?
When you create a new VM, add "physical partition" as harddisk instead of "virtual disk file". Maybe this works only on some of the VMware products. There are ESX. GSX and workstation...
I stand corrected :-)
When you do that you get loads of warnings about this being an advanced user option, and that you can seriously break things - make system non-bootable etc.
The instructions on how to do it are here: http://www.vmware.com/support/ws4/doc/disks_instraw_ws.html
Question to the original poster... why are you asking this question on a SUSE mailing list? Wouldn't this be better asked on VMWare support?? This isn't a SUSE problem is it?
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