Hi Desire,
No actually, i never really thought that that was a possibility. i mean,
after a partition is mounted into a mount point, i could change the
owner or permission of the mount point (directory), but i never thought
that it would be possible to do that for a device, i.e. a hd that is not
even mounted yet.
But yes, thinking about it, it does make sense, doesn't it? Devices in
Linux are represented as files. :-)
Thanks and Regards,
Edwin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Have you tried giving your vmware user rights to access the partition?
Eg. chown vmwareuser /dev/hda5
or maybe chgrp vmwareuser /dev/hda5 && chmod g=rw /dev/hda5
On Jan 1, 2008 10:19 PM, Edwin Lee < [EMAIL PROTECTED]
<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote:
Hi Puqing,
Thanks for the suggestion, i have found this option, but it gives me
some difficulties. i run vmware as a normal user, not root, so when i
tried to configure it to use a physical partition, it gives me the
error
message that i have no permission to access the disk, and i definitely
don't want to start vmware server as root.
The samba option seems to work well.
Thanks and Regards,
Edwin
Chen wrote:
> As I remember, vmware supports using physical disk/partition in the
> vm, doesn't it? Just "add a device" and choose a physical disk.
>
> Not very sure, though. Maybe you can give it a try.
>
> Puqing
>
>
>
>>>>> From: Edwin Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >
>>>>> To: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
>>>>> Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2007 13:15:31 +0800
>>>>> Subject: [Slugnet] Accessing "Real" Partition From Within VM
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>>
>>>>> i have XP installed on VMWare Server on Ubuntu. Is it
possible to have
>>>>> the XP access one of the real partitions (formatted FAT32)
as though it
>>>>> is a drive within the virtual machine itself? How?
>>>>>
>>>>> Happy 2008 in advance!
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks and Regards,
>>>>> Edwin
>>>>>
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