On Sun, 20 Mar 2005 17:04:11 -0800, Gus Wirth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> VMware has a utility to do a loopback mount of the virtual disk called
> vmware-loop, allowing you to access the partitions from the real machine
> and make changes, without having to be running VMware itself.
> 
> You can run a live CDROM in VMware, and it works just the way you do an
> installation. On your virtual machine, before starting set the CDROM device
> to point to the actual CDROM of the host machine. Insert your rescue disk
> and then "power on" the virtual machine. The virtual machine will boot from
> the CDROM (if it's BIOS is set to boot from CDROM) and you will be able to
> access your virtual disks that way.

I've looked all over and I don't see a "BIOS" for the virtual machine.
 Is this maybe something only in the Servers?  I'm using Workstation. 
I'll look into the loopback thing.  Thanks.

-todd
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