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[Dave Barton <bmcs@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 2005-06-23 at 18:34 -0700, Randall R Schulz wrote:
> Dave,
> 
> On Thursday 23 June 2005 18:05, Dave Barton wrote:
> > ...
> >
> > Not sure what you mean by "raw disk", but I have a W2K guest (40Gb
> > virtual disk) running under VMWS 5 on SuSE 9.3
> 
> VMWare can either emulate the disks it provides to the guest OS using 
> plain files from the host OS or it can pass the guest OS disk requests 
> directly through to host OS disks. The latter are called "raw" disks.
> 
> > Dave
> 
> 
> Randall Schulz

OK I should have RTFM ;) My warped logic works along the lines that the
opposite to "virtual" is "real" not "raw", but if that's the way VMWare
sees it, then so be it.

I am probably asking the obvious, but have you gone all the way through
the "Create New Virtual Machine" wizard? The option for a real (Oops
raw) disk/partition appears as one of the last steps of a "Custom" VM.

Are you:
(a) trying to set up a VM for an existing W2K partition (ie. a dual boot
machine)?
or
(b) trying to create a VM to install W2K on an existing disk/partition?

If your considering (a) I would advise against it. From first hand
experience, you are very likely to screw up the existing W2K install and
grub will certainly puke (don't know about lilo).

(b) is a possibility, but create the partition for your VM, before you
start the New VM wizard.

HTH
Dave