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The access problem refers to access rights for the physical partition(s) that vmware requires in order to boot a particular vm. For example, if you are trying to take an existing installation of some os that boots up as a grub option, then the physical partition and the grub holding partition must be available to vmware.

Well I neither don't like the idea of giving access to my /boot partition to vmware. Thus i was thinking about creating a floppy image with a modified grub and /boot files and thus boot vmware out of this image with a full access to the windows partition only or make a floppy image with just the windows xp bootloader ;)

It can get pretty risky, as sometimes one opens up full access of a linucs partition to...windoze!!!!!

Depending on file system used. I use reiser and AFAIK the is no plugin for windows to access that file system.

Playing with the disk group and changing permissions of whole partitions requires a lot of thinking and a lot of care. Make sure you keep track of what you change, because chances are high that you will not want to really open up your system to windoze fickleness.

As said above I don't want vmware to have access to my separate /boot partition. I hope I'm aware of the risks involved.

Additionally, even if you bypass the access problems first by running vmware as root, you will most probably have problems with non scsi devices being called scsi, see a related thread about fake scsi drives and vmware in this list.

Well I installed the windows scsi drivers form vmware homepage under the new profile in windows xp. As such my sata drives are working pretty well. Btw, I can still boot windows natively with it's previously set standard profile.

good luck and please post your progress,

When i manage to create a floppy image I will post the result here. I promise. - -- All the best, Peter J. N. aedon DESIGNS, http://www.aedon.eu/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHXrc6h8q3OtgoGAwRAt5DAJ98OKM5/9zA0KmSKKnoKCJ3WkvLfgCfSYYj rlllIdliikLcQwv6ATKhKOk= =NshJ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Tuesday 2007-12-11 at 17:13 +0100, peter wrote:

image with a full access to the windows partition only or make a floppy image with just the windows xp bootloader ;)

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It can get pretty risky, as sometimes one opens up full access of a linucs partition to...windoze!!!!!

Depending on file system used. I use reiser and AFAIK the is no plugin for windows to access that file system.

No big deal... if you don't understand what is in a partition, just silently reformat it. We are The Windows; all partitions belongs to us; we assimilate all partitions :-P - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHXxI8tTMYHG2NR9URAjidAJwPj7ZdBNhxdDNiJioJIxHH1SLjywCcDZzf eW15Z2GA5nuxNVyWRiJCTj0= =Tqry -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

Masim "Vavai" Sugianto a écrit :

On 12/11/07, peter wrote:

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Hi guys,

I got an existing WindowsXP (physical drive access) running on SUSE 10.3 ...but it works only as root. *mad*

So the question is with what rights and what access do I have to provide a new user let say "virtual" in order to be able to run Windows within VMWare 6.0 from my physical drive? A common user has not enough rights to acquire the needed info even on the partition table.

- -- All the best, Peter J. N.

I got same experience about this 1 month ago, after 10.3 installation. After trying some tips and tricks, there is 2 option to solved this problem:

1. chmod 777 to the VMware images (folder and it's content) 2. Change the author or make the group author to get full access to the VMware images

Try to logout and re-login to make sure the VMWare setting has been changed and get the latest update. I don't now why but the trick worked for me :-).

Hello, The VMware user has to be in the group "disk" and if not set like that, you have to run as root: # chmod 660 /dev/sd* and all your partitions will be accessed by VMware. Michel. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org