Hi,
can anyone help with following situation: I have 6 SATA drives on P35 ASUS motherboard and want to install FreeNAS as VM to access a few of 6 HDD directly from VM. Host OS is Windows Server 2008 x64.
I tryed to use this config like this:
Disk DescriptorFile
version=1
CID=d61db546
parentCID=ffffffff
createType="fullDevice"
Extent description
RW 1953525168 FLAT "
.\PhysicalDrive4" 0
The Disk Data Base
#DDB
ddb.encoding = "windows-1252"
ddb.adapterType = "lsilogic"
ddb.geometry.biosSectors = "63"
ddb.geometry.biosHeads = "255"
ddb.geometry.biosCylinders = "121601"
ddb.geometry.sectors = "63"
ddb.geometry.heads = "255"
ddb.geometry.cylinders = "121601"
ddb.virtualHWVersion = "7"
The problem is in line
RW 1953525168 FLAT "
.\PhysicalDrive4" 0
because each time machine boots specific HDD is under different Physical Drive number, i.e. "
.\PhysicalDrive4" or "
.\PhysicalDrive2". There can be any number between 1 and 5. Never zero.
Any idea how I can configure VM to get only desired HDD, and not random?
VMware Server 2.0.1 on Quad Core with 8GB.
TIA