Subject: Re: VMware
To: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@chylonia.3miasto.net>
From: Steven M. Bellovin <smb@research.att.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 12/07/2001 20:36:47
In message <Pine.NEB.4.33.0112072350190.3453-100000@chylonia.3miasto.net>, Wojc
iech Puchar writes:
>> > no need to risk messing with the raw disk.
>>
>> Are there native tools to manipulate the virtual disk from the NetBSD side?
>
>vnconfig :)
>
>
Have you tried it?  I'm not certain that it would work; for virtual 
disks, vmware keeps metainformation lying around.  (I use 'undoable'
disks -- or rather, I did, when vmware was still working for me.  
There's no chance of those working with vnconfig.)

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