How to connect a raw disk to a guest VM in Fusion 13

[junielkatarn]

Trying (and failing) to have a guest VM access an external physical drive.

VMware Fusion 13.0.1.
macOS Monterey 12.6.4.

1. Followed instructions at https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/2097401 to create a raw disk handle and adjust the VMX settings.
2. Started the VM.
3. I get the following error: "Operation not permitted".

Cannot open the disk 'myrawdisk.vmdk' or one of the snapshot disks it depends on.
Module 'Disk' power on failed.
Failed to start the virtual machine

Please help.

[Technogeezer]

A couple of thoughts.

Edited response:

Raw disk handles are not easy to use with macOS unlike Linux.

1. You can't guarantee that macOS will attach the external disk at the same /dev/disk name every time. macOS doesn't seem to provide consistent, persistent device names that would allow you to configure this once and never bother with it again. 
2. The /dev/disk devices are read/write by root, and read only by the operator group. You may need to sudo and use chown(1) to change the permissions of the /dev/disk devices you're using.  Not an issue. Fusion will authenticate to access the devices
3. See 1. and 2.  as you'll need to check things and possibly re-configure every time the system boots. 

I also wonder if them macOS full disk access permissions are rearing their ugly heads. 

Update: It looks to be Full Disk Access permissions that are getting in the way. I tried and got the same error message.

I looked in System Settings > Privacy & Security > Full Disk Access and found 2 com.vmware entries that did not have Full Disk Access enabled.

I enabled access for both, and now the VM will see the external raw disk.  Not sure which one made it work, though...