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Physical Drives Not Appearing- VMware Workstation Linux

by Contributor in VMware Workstation Pro Discussions
‎01-15-2022 07:25 AM
‎01-15-2022 07:25 AM
I currently have a dual boot setup between Win10 and Mint Linux(ubuntu), each os on its own drive. Currently, I'm able to successfully dual boot and use the Mint install via Win10 with VMware using t... See more...
I currently have a dual boot setup between Win10 and Mint Linux(ubuntu), each os on its own drive. Currently, I'm able to successfully dual boot and use the Mint install via Win10 with VMware using the physical drive feature. When I attempt to create a VM on Linux for the Win10 disk I'm unable to see my other two nvme drives with only the disc drive appearing as an option. I have tried both with the windows partition mounted and unmounted inside Linux. Being a Linux novice there is a good possibility I'm missing some steps within the command line.  I was not able to find much in the way of documentation related to this so any help is greatly appreciated and apologize in advance for the lack of knowledge/skill on my part. I'm still learning 

Re: Booting Physical Linux Install via VMware Workstation on Win10

by Contributor in VMware Workstation Pro Discussions
‎01-12-2022 07:12 AM
‎01-12-2022 07:12 AM
Please close thread the issue has been solved.

Re: Booting Physical Linux Install via VMware Workstation on Win10

by Contributor in VMware Workstation Pro Discussions
‎01-12-2022 06:18 AM
‎01-12-2022 06:18 AM
My apologies, just getting into Linux and learning my way around. I will boot into it and try to get a copy of the fstab file to upload after a work project is done in Windows. For now, here is a scr... See more...
My apologies, just getting into Linux and learning my way around. I will boot into it and try to get a copy of the fstab file to upload after a work project is done in Windows. For now, here is a screenshot of diskmgmt from Win10. Disk0-Windows 10 NVME with  C:/ (win install) and E   (home dir) Disk 1-Mint Linux NVME  Disk2-Work storage K:/ I'm adding disk1 to my VM using the entire drive (have also tried just the root and home directories by using the select partition option)      

[Solved]Booting Physical Linux Install via VMware Workstation on Win10

by Contributor in VMware Workstation Pro Discussions
‎01-11-2022 05:55 PM
‎01-11-2022 05:55 PM
Hi all, I have 3 nvmes on my laptop Windows on 1(ntfs), Mint (ubuntu Linux btrfs), on the 2nd, and the third is storage overflow(refs for now). Just recently have installed Mint and would like to be... See more...
Hi all, I have 3 nvmes on my laptop Windows on 1(ntfs), Mint (ubuntu Linux btrfs), on the 2nd, and the third is storage overflow(refs for now). Just recently have installed Mint and would like to be able to boot into Linux from Windows 10 running VMware Workstation. I'm using the following guide (https://foivos.zakkak.net/tutorials/booting_raw_partition_in_vmware/) but am having trouble understanding what to do with the fstab mentioned here: "Note however that it is highly expected to fail once more. This is most probably caused by your /etc/fstab of the guest OS. In my case, Ubuntu were trying to mount the EFI and swap partition, without success, resulting in a boot failure. To resolve this issue I booted natively in Ubuntu and commented out the corresponding lines in /etc/fstab (you should better use a live usb for this, though so that you can easily revert changes, especially when not 100% sure about what you are doing)."   Any help is greatly appreciated from a frustrated newbie.
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