**** BEGIN LOGGING AT Fri May 25 02:59:57 2007 May 25 13:17:36 Is there anyone on the list with lots of VMWare experience? May 25 13:18:05 I want to see if it is possible to mount a host partition onto a virtual machine May 25 14:10:51 hcg: yes, vmware can do that May 25 14:11:07 hcg: although i think you can't configure this through the gui May 25 14:11:28 hcg: but vmware can set up a fake partition table and combine it with the real partition as raw device May 25 14:11:49 I have been reading the VMWare docs for about 2 hours now, and I have found nothing that tells me how to do it May 25 14:12:47 you need to hand-edit the .vmx files May 25 14:12:59 i found some info on that on a web page May 25 14:13:02 but i don't have the link anymore May 25 14:13:50 The problem I have is that I have a large partition I need to be able to read from a 32-bit VM (the partition is about 1TB), so I do not want to create a duplicate virtual partition:) May 25 14:14:15 The host is a 64-bit host May 25 14:14:19 hmm May 25 14:14:25 no idea if it can handle that May 25 14:15:17 I am actually almost at the point of just installing a 32-bit host Linux insted of the 64-bit host. May 25 14:17:37 Just some general questions, I am not sure if you are running with 64-bit Linux, but I also find that for example, the crc32 generation code within u-boot has problems with 64-bit compilers, so... May 25 14:18:41 I have an app which runs on the host system which is meant to generate u-boot parameters, and if I run the host binary on the 64-bit compiled version, the 32-bit CRC is wrong. May 25 14:19:11 This means I cannot use my most powerful server to compile OpenWRT - what a PIA! May 25 14:19:11 show me the file, maybe i can find the bug May 25 14:19:29 Should I mail it to you? May 25 14:20:14 put it on http somewhere May 25 14:20:34 Actually, do you have u-boot anywhere on one of your dev systems? May 25 14:20:40 no May 25 14:20:50 OK, I will set up a link May 25 14:21:18 maybe the system uses unsigned long or stuff like that with the assumption that it's 32 bit sized May 25 14:21:23 that would certainly cause the crc to be wrong May 25 14:22:43 http://www.prodigi.ch/crc32.c May 25 14:23:24 looks like my assumption was correct May 25 14:23:29 let me try to come up with a fix May 25 14:23:34 Probably. May 25 14:23:39 Thanks a lot May 25 14:23:41 hcg: awx should actually be working this time around May 25 14:24:04 on all platforms May 25 14:24:47 I am busy trying to get to a point where all of my stuff and the build tree are somewhere near in sync so I can test it, but have been compiling for hours and hours today to try to get close to something which works. May 25 14:25:28 If nbd can find my issue with the crc32, I will then have another 3 powerful machines I can compile on, so compilation will go a fair amount quicker. May 25 14:25:58 hcg: http://nbd.name/crc.diff May 25 14:26:03 try this May 25 14:26:10 Will do, thanks May 25 23:41:07 florian * r7335 /trunk/target/linux/rdc-2.6/ (4 files in 3 dirs): Update rdc to .21, mark it as broken **** ENDING LOGGING AT Sat May 26 02:59:57 2007