greg freemyer tlvognmhkkorgmailcom feb 17 2008 612 pm carlos e r wrote begin pgp signed message hash sha1 sunday 20080217 1750 0500 greg freemyer wrote see need warn wrong kernel version use network etc took time think thought would use device mapper discovered option losetup think call whistling grave something like seriously creates situation vmware suse think drive maintaining caches etc gets extremely dangerous start making changes ie claim inode different uses lots issues make certain virtual machine stopped first know well must make use file structure time vmware linux _if_ want direct access like use cfs cluster file system typically implemented via network dont know multios followed thread dont know vmware suggesting would share drive guest use nfs cifs mount host layered protocols live base local filesystem thats normally use slow machine guest real slow wanted run antivir disk image waiting whole day wanted full direct access virtual disk read mode case vmware virtual drives fully allocated set grow needed fully allocated dont immediately see problem especially readonly idea thegrow needed vmware drives structured somehow doubt simple loopback device work greg greg freemyer litigation triage solutions specialist httpwwwlinkedincomingregfreemyer first 99 days litigation white paper httpwwwnorcrossgroupcomformswhitepapers9920days20whitepaperpdf norcross group intersection evidence technology httpwwwnorcrossgroupcom wed 06 aug 2008 113921 0500 opensuse mounting vmware virtual disk linux