How to mount the VMWare disk?

Submitted by pnb on Thu, 03/18/2004 - 22:53.

General discussions

Hi there,
I tried to mount the all/build/jnodedisk.pln as my Virtual Disk (IDE 0:0) on VMWare 4.0.5 Linux but get:
Unable to open either the disk '/home/peter/programs/jnode/all/build/jnodedisk.pln' or the redo log './jnodedisk.pln.REDO_RfR1c3'
Failed to configure disk ide0:0. The virtual machine cannot be powered on with an unconfigured disk.

What is wrong?

/peter

plain disks

Submitted by blind on Fri, 03/19/2004 - 11:50.

As far as I know plain disks do not work with vmware 4. You can use the CDROM image though.

greets,
Andras

VMWare Server 1.0.1

Submitted by malachid on Tue, 01/23/2007 - 07:12.

Yeah, it isn't working for VMWare Server either. Same problem.

Since that is the version they are convincing people to use, perhaps the documentation here needs updated or clarified?

Discontinued

Submitted by malachid on Tue, 01/23/2007 - 17:21.

Ok, I found the relevant VMWare support page:

Plain Disk: VMware Workstation 2.0 offered an experimental disk type called plain disk. In VMware Workstation 2.0, virtual disks could be no larger than 2GB. Plain disks provided a way to create larger disks for the virtual machine. VMware Workstation 3.x allows you to create large disks - up to 256GB - as virtual disks. Consequently, this version does not support creation of new plain disks.

Virtual machines with plain disks created in VMware Workstation 2.0 do run under VMware Workstation 3.x.

Maybe we should consider creating a VMDK file for the new spec?

CDROM image - how?

Submitted by pnb on Mon, 03/29/2004 - 18:48.

Hi,
thanks for the reply. I read some howto on creating ISO images under windows. I am running VMWare on gentoo so how do I create the ISO-fiel? It doesn t seem to be created by the ant build ...

/peter