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heavyd
Asked: 2009-06-24 18:44:50 +0800 CST

VMWare Server 2.0 Physical disks

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I have a machine setup with VMWare Server 2.0. There are several VMs running on the VMWare server and I have several physical drives. I would like to give one of the VMs exclusive access to one entire physical drive. Is it possible to essential give a physical drive to one of the VMs and let it access it as if it were actual hardware?

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  1. Best Answer

    There's a similar question asked here.

    I couldn't get it to work in my configuration, and I ended up deploying on Hyper-V for that very reason. Hyper-V does support physical disk access. VMWare workstation supports physical disk access AFAIK however.

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  2. I suppose creating a virtual machine without a hard disk and than using VMX Builder to create a vmdk linked to the physical disk will work. Haven't tested it yet though

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