Friday 13 July 2012

Attach phyical disk or partition to VMWare Fusion Virtual Machine

So, the easy way to add a raw partition or disk into VMWare Fusion is to use the included vmware-rawdiskCreator application. It is stored inside the library inside the Vmware Fusion app. The easiest way is to just run the following:


sudo /Applications/VMware\ Fusion.app/Contents/Library/vmware-rawdiskCreator create /dev/disk(Drive numer) (Partition Number) ./Desktop/(filename for VMDK file) ide

You will then have to import this into your Virtual Machine. The easiest way is to create a new disk (making sure not to allow it to split into 2gb files) and simply replace the created file with the one you made. 


One tip, you will make this way easier for yourself if you put the files you just created directly into your Virtual Machines file. You can find this file by right clicking on your machine in Fusion, and clicking Show In Finder.

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