On Thu, 2005-06-23 at 18:34 -0700, Randall R Schulz wrote:
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
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