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Re: [SLE] Problems installing VMWare
  • From: Randall R Schulz <rschulz@xxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2005 18:34:38 -0700
  • Message-id: <200506231834.38709.rschulz@xxxxxxxxx>
Dave,

On Thursday 23 June 2005 18:05, Dave Barton wrote:
> ...
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> 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

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