On 2/14/06, VaibhaV Sharma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Kewl and Darn! Just a few months back, we payed ~$1700 for our copy of
> Vmware GSX server. Well, it works pretty well on RHL. Havent tried it on
> other distros.
I am trying it on Ubuntu.
> Do post your experience with the raw disk access and dual
> boot.
I know. I know. I said I will try it later in the week. However, the
excitement of trying it out was too much and so I went ahead and tried
it. I am running into some problems. I tried two different things and
here is what happened:
1. Using partition /dev/hda1 (where XP is installed) as the physical
disk in vmware, I keep seeing pop up error messages that say:
"The physical partition table on the physical disk has changed since
the disk was created. Remove the physical disk from the virtual
machine and then add it again."
When I go ahead and power on the virtual machine I see the following error:
"GRUB Loading stage1.5". Error 17
2. Using entire disk /dev/hda as the physical disk, I am able to get
rid of the popup error messages. I am able to power on the machine and
see the GRUB menu listing all the OS-es. I select Windows XP
Professional from the GRUB menu and here is the error message I get:
"Booting 'Microsoft Windows XP Professional'
root (hd0,0)
Filesystem type unknown, partition type 0x7
savedefault
makeactive
chainloader +1
A disk read error occured
Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart."
My /dev/hda1 is ntfs, FWIW. Damn! I just realized that this may not
work. Linux natively does not support writing to NTFS. And so I assume
VMWare running on Linux will also not be able to write to the NTFS
partition. Phooey!!
Thaths
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