> -----Original Message----- > From: fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of John Thompson > Sent: Monday, March 29, 2004 1:07 AM > To: For users of Fedora Core releases > Subject: Re: VMWare in Fedora Land > > > On Tue, 16 Mar 2004 19:30:40 +1030 > Mark Limburg <mlimburg@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > 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! > > Yes. Although setting up a bootable raw drive is still a bit > of a trick, it's relatively trivial to add an existing raw > drive to a VM that boot from a virtual drive. This can be > quite handy, as the native Windows NTFS support will be used > to access the drive, rather than the "experimental" linux > NTFS support. > > To set this up, power down (not just "suspend" but a full > power down) your Windows virtual machine. With the proper VM > highlighted in the main VMware window, select > "VM...Settings...Hardware"). Click on the "Add" button and > select "Hard Drive" and just follow the prompts for adding a > physical drive. You know.. I'm curious and afraid that I'll screw up my XP partitiion!! And I don't have backup. (& I don't fancy a reinstall) What's the confident level that it won't screw it up??
