Hi,
I'm using VMPlayer 5 on Windows 7 Pro host with various Linux guests, all 64bit. I have a problem with raw disk access: whenever I try to repartition the physical disk, I remove the HardDisk entries from the VM, but when I try to add them back (to get the new geometry) with "using partitions" access, I get an empty partition list.
More details:
I currently use only 1 VM that has raw disk access. It was created as a Workstation 8.0 VM. I set the raw disk access mode to "using partitions" and selected 3 of those. The VM also uses a small virtual hard drive of 500MB, which I only use to boot from, using grub in its MBR. I have 2 other VMs using only virtual drives. In the past, I had a few other VMs using raw disks, but I don't use them any more, and I removed them from the "Virtual Machines" folder. (Can they still affect things??)
After powering off the VM and and Win7, I booted off a live usb. I used gparted to edit the partition table of my hard disk, then fdisk to fix the order of partitions. Booting back into Win7, when I first selected the raw disk VM, it gave me some error messge. I expected this because the raw disks changed. In settings, I went on to remove the raw disks from the VM. Then I clicked add Hard Disk, raw, using partitions, and the partition table is empty.
For now I was able to reverse the process (boot off live usb, remove the new partition, expand the old one where it used to be, boot back into Win7) and now the VM works again.
But how can I get VMPlayer to read the new partition table? Can the old VMs affect things? Maybe some stale file left somewhere under "Program Files/VMare"? Should I consider removing and reinstalling VM Player itself?
Thanks!!
