> 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.
I tried enabling all the disk options in the Vmware bios to see if that would make a difference with Project Indiana Developer Preview 2. It did not. It seems that OpenSolaris is stuck limiting disk size until Vmware makes a new virtual disk controller. This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-help mailing list [email protected]
