Access to raw disk (such as /dev/disk2) from Guest?

Hi,

I'm wondering if and how I can add an entire disk - raw - as a harddrive to a Parallels guest.

That is, I'd like to be able to set things up such that:

/dev/disk2 (not just /dev/disk2s1) is mapped to say IDE 1:0 or SATA 0:1 in the Parallels guest.

Sometimes I do weird things with disks, and they don't always have partition tables. I can add a GPT partition table to the disk if absolutely required to get this to work, but I'd really prefer just mapping the whole drive directly, without Parallels dealing with it's content in any way.

I'm currently a VMWare user, but I'm evaluating Parallels at the moment. So far, I really like what I see. Parallels seems to perform better, and fixes various little annoyances I had with VMWare. I do really need this to work if I'm to be able to switch over though. Really hoping someone can comment or point me in the right direction.

Terje

P.S: Yes, I tried searching forums, and google before asking. Related questions have been asked, but often not answered, and when answered, mostly only so for bootcamp partitions.

 

I had a similar issue where I wanted to have raw access to an NTFS partition on a separate disk. All I did was add an additional boot camp hard drive to the vm hardware config; pointed to the hdd with the target ntfs partition. I assume all you need is an existing NTFS partition on the disk.