Dave, On Thursday 23 June 2005 20:51, Dave Barton wrote:
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.
The disks are still virtual from the perspective of the guest OS. E.g., the guest OS does not see the same drive hardware as that actually present in the host. Apparently, VMWare uses "physical" and "raw" interchangeably to describe virtual drives that are mapped directly to host OS drives and not stored in host OS files.
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.
I'm not the OP. My VMWare set-up is working just fine. I expect he'll get back to us with more details on whatever help he needs. Failing that, I see no point in guessing what sort of remedy might be in order.
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HTH Dave
Randall Schulz