Thanks Gustin. That helps quite a bit. Now if only it had CUPS :-/
On 3/1/07, Gustin Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Mitchell Brown wrote: > If you have no need for ACLs, then why FreeNAS? That's pretty much it's > only usefulness > > > Forgive me, I was over-complicating things and didn't realize ACL stood > for access control list. Yes, I will be needing this. > > > As for hooking up the drives, you can either mount the Host OS > disks/partition as shares into the VM using NFS (or CIFS if you're > putting VMWare on Windows) or you can tell VMWare to actually use the > physical disks themselves. I've only seen that done once because it > means that the disks cannot be used by the host OS. I think you'll only > ever see that in a multi-drive machine where the boot drive houses the > "Host" OS and the remaining drives are taken by the VM to make a RAID. > > > So if I run a Typical wizard in VMware and load up FreeNAS as a vmdk > image, how can I convince it to use the Host OS's drives? > AFAIK, you're confined to the clients virtual "drives" aren't you? > At least under Linux, (this is the only place I actually use this) you can use any unmounted partition. I have used this a few times to rescue non booting machines as well as build servers that will eventually not be in a VM (USB enclosure + my laptop). Of course you don't go with the default new VM wizard when creating a VM. You can also add a partition to an existing VM by adding a new virtual drive that is in reality a normal partition on a disk. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFF50QfwRXgH3rKGfMRAhpHAJ9g8ZM2QvF1jNJxSBaLygmuBOfvGgCeLshY 9/8PJug9I1IV10IT0AC6+0U= =L4dR -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
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