Okay I've dug up an answer from the vmware forum archives that had previously evaded me. Here is the problem: http://communities.vmware.com/message/776774
OpenSolaris sees the ATA-4 adapter that Vmware uses and explicitly limits the size of the disk to the size limit specified in ATA-4. OpenSolaris is unique in doing this. Other operating systems apparently just let the size become what it may, rather than artificially limiting it. It seems to me that a fix or workaround is needed on the OpenSolaris side, because the only solution on the virtualization side is to wait for virtualization companies to implement new virtual ATA adapters. Does anyone know why the code is set up to manually limit disk sizes in this way? If there is no good reason for it, maybe a quick fix could be made. This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-help mailing list [email protected]
