11/14/2022 0 Comments Vmware fusion 4![]() Next you have to edit the VMWare file manually to add the disks, and remove the default one. In order to access the physical drives, I used virtualbox’s toolkit:Ĭhef:Ubuntu 64-bit.vmwarevm vijayp$ sudo VBoxManage internalcommands createrawvmdk -filename disk1.vmdk -rawdisk /dev/disk1Ĭhef:Ubuntu 64-bit.vmwarevm vijayp$ sudo VBoxManage internalcommands createrawvmdk -filename disk3s2.vmdk -rawdisk /dev/disk3s2Ĭhef:Ubuntu 64-bit.vmwarevm vijayp$ sudo chown $USER disk*.vmdk VMWare has created a default disk that’s striped into 11 pieces (see the *.vmdk files). Ubuntu 64-bit-s006.vmdk Ubuntu ist vmware.log Ubuntu 64-bit-s005.vmdk Ubuntu 64-bit-s011.vmdk Ubuntu 64-bit.vmxf Ubuntu 64-bit-s004.vmdk Ubuntu 64-bit-s010.vmdk Ubuntu Ubuntu 64-bit-s003.vmdk Ubuntu 64-bit-s009.vmdk Ubuntu 64-bit.vmx Ubuntu 64-bit-s002.vmdk Ubuntu 64-bit-s008.vmdk Ubuntu 64-bit.vmsd Ubuntu 64-bit-s001.vmdk Ubuntu 64-bit-s007.vmdk Ubuntu 64-bit.vmdk This turned up in my Documents folder:Ĭhef:~ vijayp$ cd ~/Documents/Virtual\ Machines.localized/Ĭhef:Virtual Machines.localized vijayp$ lsĬhef:Virtual Machines.localized vijayp$ cd Ubuntu\ 64-bit.vmwarevm/ My main drive was /dev/disk1 (for some reason, I decided to use the entire disk for the linux partition) and the data partition was /dev/disk3s2.Īfter installing VMWare fusion 4, I created a new custom VM set up as Ubuntu 64-bit. Since I had VirtualBox installed, this wasn’t too difficult.įirst off, figure out what the mac thinks your disk(s) are called:Ĭhef:ubuntu_test.vmwarevm vijayp$ diskutil listģ: Microsoft Basic Data Untitled 899.4 GB disk3s3 I think the new VMWare Fusion can read BootCamp config data automatically, but I didn’t want to use BootCamp (long story). There’s no easy guide for this on the web most want you to use a vmware tool that existed in previous versions in /Library/Application Support/VM* but that file didn’t exist for me. Vmware fusion 4 mac os#I wanted to boot and run my Linux installation from a physical disk inside Mac OS X. ![]()
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