Hi,
Thanks Joel, actually i'm not exactly running vmware off a physical
partition. i'm still using a virtual partition as the virtual XP's main
drive. Just need a way to access some file on one of the physical
partitions, that's all.
At least i know who to go to for help, should i feel like trying out
Qemu in future ;-) For now, vmware still works fine for my uses.
Thanks and Regards,
Edwin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
forwarded cos it was probably incorrectly addressed.
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From: *Joel Wiramu Pauling* < [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Date: Jan 2, 2008 9:18 AM
Subject: Re: [Slugnet] Re: Accessing "Real" Partition From Within VM
To: "[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>" < [EMAIL PROTECTED]
<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>>
Make sure you setup a different hardware profile in windows before you
run the vmware off the physical partition. Otherwise you will get
bluescreens as doze trys loading drivers that vmware can't cope with
resource intercepting... -> blue screen on boot.
There is a nice howto for ubuntu. google is your friend.
I do similar things often when migrating clients to virtual machined
based windows on linux solutions (REALLLY REALLY nice for management
and backup) and works well. However I suggest that a Much better
solution is use a micro xp/2003 inistaller (bittorrent is your friend)
and use a file as the filesystem backing.. If you want to use existing
partition. Take a snapshot (dd if=/dev/hdX of=/some/path/somefile.raw.
Use qemu-img utils to change the image format. You can mount the image
loopback also (from the raw dd) but you need to specify offset of the
first 512 bytes (qemu-img man page has this info on doing this from
memory).
Also if you have a processor with vt extensions (core2 or amd64 am2
socket chips and up) KVM (kernel virtual machines) are a much more
elegant solution to vmware, essentially kvm is just kernel hook for
qemu and is fast and nice.
Kind regards
JoelW
On 02/01/2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <
[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[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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