I think, it is possible in a normal way:
Edit settings for the VM and create/add a new Virtual disk, which uses Physical disk, then select individual Partitions.
It should not matter that the host is Windows.
But - as I haven't tested it - there may be some issues depending on how the disk has been partitioned (under Linux or Windows)
Read thread http://communities.vmware.com/message/513200
you can also search the forum, there were discussions about that.
I think, it is possible in a normal way:
Edit settings for the VM and create/add a new Virtual disk, which uses Physical disk, then select individual Partitions.
It should not matter that the host is Windows.
But - as I haven't tested it - there may be some issues depending on how the disk has been partitioned (under Linux or Windows)
Read thread http://communities.vmware.com/message/513200
you can also search the forum, there were discussions about that.
Like rkr002 wrote you can add a virtual disk to your guest which points to the ext3 partition.
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Ok, I see now, I wasn't even aware of that option... But I'm still having a problem: when i try to add the partition, vmware says:
Failed to add disk ide0:0.
Could not add device ide0:0.
Is this because I'm adding a partition that is on the same physical drive as the windows partition? I tried deleting the partition and making it from windows, but that didn't help. Although, as far as i can remember, I did the partitioning originally in Linux, so maybe the wntire partition table is the problem? I think this is unlikely, since windows doesn't have any problems reading it.
OK, never mind, I just needed to power off the VM first...
