Let VMware use logical volumes as virtual disks

After decompression, run make in the build directory; Make install Installation

Create directory/DEV/SD (virtual SCSI disk) and/or/DEV/HD (Virtual IDE disk)

Use Lvcreate to create logical volumes and add links to newly created logical volumes in/DEV/SD and/or/DEV/HD.

If you are using VMware Workstation, you can start the virtual machine using the following command

$ ld_preload=libvmware-bdwrapper.so.0 vmware_bdwrapper_devices=/dev/hd/tex:/dev/sd/test VMWARE

Where/dev/hd/tex and/dev/sd/text are links to logical volumes.

If you are using VMware Server, you need to modify/etc/init.d/vmware, at the beginning, after #!/bin/sh, add the following

Export ld_preload=libvmware-bdwrapper.so.0

Export Vmware_bdwrapper_devices=/dev/hd/tex:/dev/sd/test

Rename/usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware-vmx to/usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware-vmx.old, establish file/usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware-vmx, as follows

#!/usr/bin/perl

$ENV {ld_preload}= ' libvmware-bdwrapper.so.0 ';

$ENV {vmware_bdwrapper_devices}= '/dev/hd/tex:/dev/sd/test ';

exec '/usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware-vmx.old ', @ARGV

And give the same permissions as/usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware-vmx.old.

When you are done, you can increase the disk of/dev/hd/tex,/dev/sd/text as a virtual machine as if you were adding a normal physical hard disk.