VMWare in Fedora Land

[Paul Furness]

I haven't actually done this for real, but I nearly did so I can tell
you how to do it :)

Shut down windows in the VM, and then stop the VM. 
Got to Edit -> Virtual Machine Settings and click on "Add" at the
bottom.
Select hard disk, and then tell it to use a physical hard disk
Tell it which one.
Start the VM and boot XP - you should now have another disk.

I have read warnings that this is only partly supported, but I think the
probably affects booting from a physical disk rather than just reading
from one.


Hope this helps you. :)

Paul.


On Tue, 2004-03-16 at 09:00, Mark Limburg wrote:
> Howdy,
> 
> Not really a Fedora question, but it's running on it :P
> 
> I have VMWare v4.0.5 sitting here, running XP in a 20G virtual drive. I
> was wondering if there was a way to tell it of a seperate (real) drive I
> have in my machine, which normally houses a 120G XP installation.  This
> would be quite cool, as it would provide me a network path to this 120G
> partition which I could then read and write from!
> 
> Okay, using VMWare as a middle product is a little top heavy, but a) it
> provides real access, and b) allows me to still use the XP data in my
> virtual XP install.
> 
> .mwl
> 
>