Creating a virtual disk.

[WFinch]

Well, from an earlier post, I have a windows NT box with one physical drive and two partitions.. I ran converter on both partitions seperately and the C: partition starts up great in vmplayer. Going from a post on . How can I make a virtual disk on the machine to act as D:? Is it possible with player or do I need workstation?

[oreeh]

You only have to modify the VMX file and add the second disk there.

If unsure post the VMX file and the name of the disk.

[WFinch]

As I am not sure what to chance in the vmx file here is the vmx file for the C drive. The D drive is saved as "PHOTOBOX D". Do I need to move the .vmdk file into the same directory as the one for the C: drive?

[oreeh]

Move the D drive to the same folder as the C drive and add the following lines to the VMX.

Close WS/Server/whichever product do you use before doing this.

scsi0:1.present = "TRUE"

scsi0:1.fileName = "PHOTOBOX D.vmdk"

[WFinch]

Thanks, Now the SCSI devices are an old Nikon coolprint and a tape drive. the HDD is IDE, so I would want to add

ide0:1.present = "TRUE"

ide0:1.fileName = "PHOTOBOX D.vmdk

am I correct with that? or do I want to do is with the scsi command?

EDIT: Ok, I see what it is doing now. Sorry for the stupid question and thank you for all the help.

[oreeh · Accepted solution]

Your posted VMX states that "PHOTOBOX C.vmk" is a Buslogic SCSI disks and since this is a P2Ved machine the D disk should be a SCSI disk as well.

Don't confuse the hosts hardware with the VMs hardware!

[WFinch]

Lol, I noticed that after I had posted. New to VM technology so having to learn a couple things. But, wow, VMware is some of the greatest stuff I have seen in a while.