[Quantian-general] vmplayer, cant mount host partitiions

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 22 October 2006 at 10:03, jack byers wrote:
| quantian via vmplayer howto
| working,    host os fc5
| however cant mount  the host  system  partitions
| 
| the various sdax are listed as dirs    under /mnt
| 
| but when i try to mount:
| 
| root at boxq:~# mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/sda1
| mount: /dev/sda1 is not a valid block device
| root at boxq:~#
| 
| root at boxq:/# mount -t ext3 /dev/sda1 /mnt/sda1
| mount: /dev/sda1 is not a valid block device
| root at boxq:/#

I think that is normal. VMWare player makes the virtual computer a "separate"
computer. It has its own device. If you want the partitions from the host,
you may need to export them via nfs.
| 
| is the problem i am having mounting sda1 a limitation imposed by design?
| or some limitation of this quantian-qemu-vmplayer hybrid?
| or something i missed during the config, install?
| 
| 
| I did not have this limitation when  running quantian.iso  booted via grub

Well then you are booted into Quantian and it controls your computer, as
opposed to be being a virtual guest.
 
| Also,
| vmplayer  pdf manual advertises  ability to copy,paste between host,
| virtualmachine

Yes, works for me.   

Hth, Dirk

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