1. Get Disk-ID from Disk Utility.app ("disk1" in my case)
2. Open Terminal
3.Change current directory to:
/Applications/VMware Fusion.app/Contents/Library/
4. Run vmware-rawdiskCreator with the right disk. This will create a new external-hdd.vmdk file in your home folder:
./vmware-rawdiskCreator create /dev/disk1 fullDevice ~/external-hdd ide
5. Open Vm Config file (*.vmx) with TextEdit and add following lines:
ide1:1.present = "TRUE" ide1:1.fileName = "external-hdd.vmdk"
6. save and quit
[via]http://techrem.blogspot.de/2012/12/add-physical-disk-to-vmware-fusion.html[/via]
I don’t understand why every single post about this on the entire internet has the same broken instructions. This leaves you with an unusable vmdk file that you cannot attach, open, or load in any way. I’ve done this 20 times now and that’s always the result.
This post is from 2015 – maybe things have changed. it worked at then.