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Chapter 11 Using Disks and Disk Drives
Unmap a Partition That Is Mapped to a Windows 7 Host
Corruptioncanoccurifyouallowthevirtualmachinetomodifyaphysicaldisk
partitionthatissimultaneouslyusedasamappeddriveonthehost.
To unmap a partition that is mapped to a Windows 7 host
1 SelectStart>ControlPanel.
2Inthemenubar,clickthearrownexttoControlPanel.
3Fromthedrop‐downmenu,selectAllControlPanelItems>Administrative
Tool
s>ComputerManagement>Storage>DiskManagement(Local).
4Right‐clickapartitionandchooseChangeDriveLetterandPaths.
5ClickRemoveandOK.
Set Permissions on Linux Hosts
Ifpermissionsaresetcorrectly,thephysicaldiskconfigurationfilesinWorkstation
controlaccess.Thisreliabilityprovidesbootmanagersaccesstoconfigurationfilesand
ot
herfile
stheymightneedtobootoperatingsystems.Forexample,LILOneedstoread
/bootonaLinuxpartitiontobootanon‐Linuxoperatingsystemthatmightbeon
anotherdrive.
To set permissions on Linux hosts
1Makesurethemasterphysicaldiskdeviceordevicesarereadableandwritableby
theus
erwhorunsWor
kstation.
Physicaldevices,suchas/dev/hda(IDEphysicaldisk)and/dev/sdb(SCSI
physicaldisk),belongtogroup‐iddiskonmostdistributions.Ifthisisthe
case,youcanaddVMwareWorkstationuserstothediskgroup.
Anotheroptionistochangetheownerofthedevice.Considerallthesecurity
issuesinvolvedinthisoption.
2GrantVMwareWorkstationusersaccesstoall/dev/hd[abcd]physicaldevices
thatcontainoperatingsystemsorbootmanagers.
Create a Virtual Machine That Uses a Physical Disk
UsetheNewVirtualMachinewizardtocreateanewvirtualmachinethatusesa
physicaldiskratherthanaddingaphysicaldisktoanexistingvirtualmachine.
Beforeyoubegin,completethetasksdescribedin“PrerequisitesforUsingaPhysical
Disk”onpage 245.
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