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 -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
