>From: "Lamar Owen" <lowen at pari.edu> >Reply-To: CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> >To: CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> >Subject: Re: [CentOS] VMware ver 1.03 >Date: Sat, 12 May 2007 10:21:00 -0400 > >On Saturday 12 May 2007, Barton Callender wrote: > > I'm for not giving accurate information, I am able to create new virtual > > machines as a non-root user. I have windowsXP and Ubuntu installed on >my > > hard drive as well. So I am trying to create a new virtual machine with > > custom settings, and using my hard drive, so I can boot windowsXP or >Ubuntu > > while Im in CentOS 5. But when I reach to the end of the settings it >tells > > me I do not have permission to access that file. > >Please read the VMware documentation about 'dual boot' installs >(specifically, >the Virtual Machine Guide, section "Using Disks in a Virtual >Machine"; "Configuring Hard Disk Storage in a Virtual Machine"; "Disk >Types: >Virtual and Physical"; "Physical (Raw) Disk" and the paragraph immediately >below the caution (not counting the caution, this is the third paragraph of >the section). > >Note that Windows XP will want to reactivate every time you boot in the VM >after having booted the hard drive, and vice versa (XP is seeing a >different >PC each time; the bare host hardware when native booted, and a PC >called 'VMware' when booted inside VMware Server). Also note that the >hardware VMware server presents to the VM's is radically different from the >hardware the bare OS sees, especially the video card, network card, audio >driver, and motherboard chipset. VMware recommends that you do not do >this, >in other words, and you can cause serious issues on the dual booted OS's if >you do it. > >Now, if you want to always boot these others under VMware server, you can >just >do that; but dual-booting and VMware running of the VM's is going to cause >the guest OS's (especially XP) loads of problems. >-- >Lamar Owen >Chief Information Officer >Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute >1 PARI Drive >Rosman, NC 28772 >(828)862-5554 >www.pari.edu >_______________________________________________ >CentOS mailing list >CentOS at centos.org >http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos Thanks for your reponse, I guess they changed some things in the vmware server, I dont remember what version I had on my centos 4.4 version. I was able to install it and create a new virtual machine using my hard drive (raw disk) with no problem. WindowsXP started up fine and I did not have any problems. The only thing that I had to do was install vmware tools manually. Later _________________________________________________________________ Catch suspicious messages before you open them—with Windows Live Hotmail. http://imagine-windowslive.com/hotmail/?locale=en-us&ocid=TXT_TAGHM_migration_HM_mini_protection_0507