![]() Still, I thought my "ED Floppy" joke was passable geek humor, and a guy like "WoodyZ" might appreciate it, but I guess it got lost.Īnyway, how fortuitous it is that I know exactly what I am doing. (Which is incedentally probably incorrect I bet you missed the part where you have to account for a possibly different geometry in the VMDK). I cannot possibly understand your justifcation for mouthing off nor your desire to taunt me with your solution to this problem. I would remind you that in the thread you referenced you did indeed introduce yourself to me by stepping forward to insult my helpfulness by citing some nebulous and unpublished attachment policy. I bet you have worn out your VMware Board Warrior polo shirt. WoodyZ, the little brain beside your name does not due your intellect justice. Well I just ran a VMware Fusion Virtual Machine using Raw Disks without any defined partitions or a partition table, in other words using physical disks that had nothing but zeros written to the entire surface of the platters, and it was actually quite easy and because of your replies in I wouldn't lift a finger to tell you how to do it other then to say it's doable if you know what you're doing! I seem to remember trying to figure this out in Workstation a long time ago and having basically the same luck. I can see plenty of reasons this might be useful beyond just my circumstance in certain situations it might be useful to map entire disks with multiple partitions to a guest VM ie for installation image creation or data recovery purposes. I am also capable of understanding the consequences of mucking around in a vmdk by hand if anyone has the ability to explain how to do it manually. I was hoping there is some feature of vmware-rawdiskCreator that will do this for me. My question is how do I create a vmdk which maps the entire drive to a VM in fusion? (IE /dev/disk1 vs /dev/disk1s1) I know enough about vmware to know it should be possible (I do basically this kind of thing all the time with ESX and raw luns), but I do not know enough about the vmdk format to understand how to calculate the correct values. ![]() I can do this by attaching the USB devices directly to the VM, but the performance is really poor and I'd like to access them as raw partitions via the firewire interface instead. In fact, this is a supported and suggested method of zpool creation. I have some external drives in a firewire/usb enclosure that are used as members of a zfs zpool, but in this configuration these drives are unpartitioned there is no guid or mbr or any other partition map installed on the disk the OS uses them as raw block storage. ![]()
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