I'm trying to figure out how to reenable snapshoting for a VM that I added a physical IDE disk to. I understand that snapshots don't work with physical disks and I don't want it the physical disk snapshoted. If I turn off and disable the phyiscal disk, I can snapshot but I can't if the VM is on with the physical disk attached. From what I've read, it looks like I should just be able to set the drive as persistent, however, I don't see the advanced button when setting up the disk as is referenced here
http://www.vmware.com/support/ws4/doc/disks_add_ws.html
http://www.vmware.com/support/ws5/doc/ws_disk_add_raw.html
http://www.vmware.com/pdf/ws80-using.pdf
I can set he mode to persistent with a new virtual disk, just not a physical disk.
I've also tried adding
ide0:0.redo = ""
ide0:0.mode = "independent-persistent"
to the vmx as referenced here
http://communities.vmware.com/thread/295179
with out luck.
I'm using Workstation 8.0.3 on Windows 7. This drive is not assigned in Windows 7 and is the only IDE drive in the box. Is this actually still possible or am I misunderstanding something?