Hello, I haven't been watching qemu development too closely but AFAIK (and a quick search through the list archives says the same thing) there haven't been any efforts in building the vmware block driver as a kernel (block device) driver. This would of course be a complete waste of somebody's time _except_ (arguably) for something like booting a kernel natively but mounting root (et cetera) from a .vmdk file. I would equally appreciate any pointer towards somebody's attempt at doing this or an opinion on whether it is worth doing at all (although the FUSE framework would probably make a first attempt worthwhile). Cheers, Bogdan.