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Accessing a physical

Thu, 21 Dec 2006 12:02:54 -0800

Accessing a physical partition is a little bit complicated and not supported in the current version of the LivePC Engine. You could theoretically use the VMware Workstation trial version to generate a partition table file and a vmdk descriptor file, copy those files into the activation/ directory of your LivePC, and edit the vmx file to point to the vmdk descriptor, but I haven't tried it myself. If you just want to read the files on that disk, you could try to mount your ReiserFS partition in Windows using CrossMeta or ReiserDriver. Once it is available on Windows you could set up the drive as a Windows share and mount it within the LivePC using smbmount. I don't have any experience with those tools so I can't say how well they will work. -John

More details would be helpful

Thu, 14 Dec 2006 13:09:33 -0800

I would like information on how to specify that Drive 2, partition 2 is to be addressed as a physical drive (both are origin 0). The configuration web page does not appear to allow that. Seems like I'll have to edit the VMX file myself, but I haven't found any documentation for the VMX file format.

I just created a new topic

Thu, 14 Dec 2006 11:46:17 -0800

I just created a new topic in the forum without any problem. Will debug some more.

You can change the

Thu, 14 Dec 2006 11:41:30 -0800

You can change the configuration and add the disk by clicking the Configure button. That will update the vmx file for you.

Can't post new issue

Thu, 14 Dec 2006 02:06:41 -0800

I would create a new topic, but for some reason I just get prompted to log in over and over. Apologies for replying off topic. I want to mount the third partition of a physical IDE drive, formatted as Reiser3, from a Gentoo 2006.1 VM. Using YAReG (http://yareg.akucom.de) I can browse the drive contents from Windows XP; YAReG says the drive is "drive2part2". I suppose I need to tell the VM that it's OK to access the drive somehow. Do I need to insert new information into the VMX file? If so, what should I add?

emerging world

Fri, 24 Nov 2006 21:14:54 -0800

because installing the vmware workstation tools requires you to download a special package, i already installed them in the base system that you initially subscribed too. this message can be avoided by adding a line app-emulation/vmware-workstation-tools to /etc/portage/package.mask the tools provide a vmware based driver for ethernet which should be more efficient than the emulated AMD PCnet32 card that is the default option. i think if you unmerge the vmware-workstation-tools, it won't delete the kernel module for the network, so that would be ok. i'd recommend just masking the package so you dont install a new version. hope that helps, -tj

emerging vmware-workstation-tools on Gentoo

Wed, 22 Nov 2006 13:27:36 -0800

My version of the Gentoo 2006.1 LivePC does not have X installed (it is a virtual server.) When I attempt to emerge world, I get:

$ sudo emerge -DuNav world
These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
Calculating world dependencies... done!
[ebuild     UD] app-emulation/vmware-workstation-tools-5.5.1 [5.5.2] USE="-X*" 0 kB
Is VMware Tools strictly for X?  If so, I should remove it from the installed packages.  Here is what I get when I attempt to emerge it:
>>> Emerging (1 of 1) app-emulation/vmware-workstation-tools-5.5.1 to /
 * checking ebuild checksums ;-) ...                                                                              [ ok ]