running Linux at work with Windows apps

[Roger H. Goun]

On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 07:04:03PM -0500, Tom Buskey wrote:
> "Roger H. Goun" said:
>>On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 12:52:16PM -0500, Tom Buskey wrote:
>>> Unfortunately, VMware changed the file format of thier virtual disks
>>> going from 2.x to 3.x.  This doesn't work with the .vmdk files.  The old
>>> format was just a dd image.  The new one has different data structures
>>> in it.
>>> 
>>> So it's back to running the client and using smbclient //<ipaddress of 
>>> client on vmnet1>/<filesystem> in linux.
>>> 
>>> Or have raw partitions and mount directly.
>>
>>I was about to protest that it still works for me, but VMware
>>3.2.0-2230 just crashed and burned and told me to request support, so
>>maybe not. :-)
> 
> I just downloaded the vmmount stuff & it didn't work on my .vmdk files. 
>  Were you able to use it on a .vmdk file or is it a .dsk file?  Maybe I 
> need to rebuild.  My .vmdk is the result of upgrades from VMware 2.x.  
> I'm running 3.2 too.

I'm using a .dsk file created by some previous VMware version.
However, I just tried to create a new virtual disk from scratch and
VMware crashed the same way. This implies that there's a more general
problem here.

My first guess is that this has something to do with installing a new
Red Hat kernel a few weeks ago, even though I rebuilt VMware's
loadable modules at the time.

In any event, I sit corrected on mounting a virtual disk in current
VMware versions.

-- Roger

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Roger H. Goun                  Brentwood Country Animal Hospital, P.C.
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