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This doesnt work for me…when launching the VM I just get a black screen … I’ve done and redone this and confirmed the rdm.vmdk file is in the package. Trying to boot off of my Ubuntu partition into the VM
ReplyWhen I bought my macbook the first thing I did was dual boot XP, I found myself in XP way more than on OSX, On my desktop Vaio I ran Dual boot Ubuntu and Vista.
After a while of thinking I scrapped both XP and OSX and now I use the macbook exclusively for Ubuntu, Its way better than both other OS combined, and makes me feel better about spending so much on a grossly over priced and underpowered macbook.
ReplyWhen I issued the ‘vmware-rawdiskCreator print’ command, it listed my Linux partition as ‘HFS+’. When I continued with the rest of the steps, after starting the Linux Virtual Machine in VMware Fusion, I would get to the grub shell and then not be able to continue.
This is what I had to do to get it working:
– Reboot MacBook Pro
– At the rEFit screen, invoke the Partitioning Tools
– The Partitioning Tools will suggest that the partition mentioned above should be labeled as ‘Linux’
– Accept the suggestion
– Boot into OS X
– Remove any files that were previously created by vmware-rawdiskCreator
– Repeat the steps provided by taylor
I was then able to start the Linux Virtual Machine successfully. Just FYI, I am using Fedora 8 64-bit.
ReplyThank you for writing this extremely helpful article, Taylor!
There’s a minor error in the instructions. In VMware Fusion 2.0, when you use vmware-rawdiskCreator to create the raw disk mapping, if you specify the .vmdk file extension then it creates a disk file with the vmdk extension duplicated: xxx.vmdk.vmdk. So the correct command should omit the .vmdk extension:
./vmware-rawdiskCreator create /dev/disk0 X /path.to/Ubuntu.vmwarevm/rdm ide
Thanks again!
ReplyThanks for the write up. I’m trying with one of the new all-aluminum Macbooks. I follow all the directions and I tell VMWare fusion to boot the newly minted virtual machine and all I get is an attempt to boot off the network, which inevitably fails. Basically, I think something isn’t pointing to the right place. Anyone else run into this? Thanks.
ReplyThanks for the write up, Taylor! Unfortunately when I try to follow your instructions the VM just spits out the following prompt:
error: no such partition.
grub rescue> _
Anyone else have this problem?
ReplyVMware Fusion 3.1.2 on MacBook Pro – same problem with running Ubuntu in VM:
error: no such partition.
grub rescue> _
My setup is triple boot, 5 partitions:
1: EFI,
2: OS X 10.6.6,
3: Windows 7,
4: Ubuntu 10.04
5: Data
Yep same problem
error: no such partition.
grub rescue> _
Anyone else have this problem?
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