[ale] VMWare and LILO configuration

Kent Pirkle kpirkle at ga.prestige.net
Sun Jan 7 18:39:23 EST 2001


I can understand the need to get around the 2GB limit, but I still
don't understand why LILO would be needed to boot Win98 in the
VM? Are you talking about the LILO that boots your host OS or
a LILO inside the VM?


On Sun, Jan 07, 2001 at 01:39:44PM +0000, Subba Rao wrote:
> 
> I want to install the Guest OSs on the raw disks such as /dev/hda5.../dev/hdb4
> etc. In case I update my Linux to 2.4 at a later date, the guest OS installation
> and data would not have to be reinstalled. VMWare is not finding the raw disk
> guest OS installation, until I mention it in lilo.conf. Virtual disks seem to
> have a limitation of 2 GB per disk. Raw Disks do not have such restrictions.
>  

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