I used regular files to simulate raw disks, download my white paper that I presented at last IOUG conference. http://www.teci-it.com/2009_722_Testa_ppr.doc joe _______________________________________ Joe Testa, Oracle Certified Professional (Work) 614-677-1668 (Cell) 614-312-6715 Interested in helping out your marriage? Ask me about "Weekend to Remember" Dec 11-13, 2009 here in Columbus. From: Balakrishna Y <krishna000@xxxxxxxxx> To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Date: 08/12/2009 07:28 AM Subject: How to create Raw Partition on vmware Sent by: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Hi all, I have windows XP local machine and in that i have vmware with RHEL 4 . I would like to practice ASM and for this i need to create raw partition. Do you people have any docs on this . Regards Bala