The follow is a short how to for creating a private network, for instance used as cross-over type connections amongst two virtual machines. This was doing using Windows version of VMware Server, with Fedora 8 as the guest OS.

DRBD acts as a virtual layer between the OS file system and the raw disk device (or can actually work against LVM devices). Hence the reason for having a kernel module. To setup a second raw disk device on our VMware images, you can perform the following steps, with the guest powered off.

Add New Virtual Disk 

This will compile and install DRBD on Fedora 8. The following steps were run against a bare Fedora system, kernel 2.6.23.9-85.fc8, and DRBD 8.2.1.

Prework

This is a guide to configure and install Fedora 8 as guest virtual machine in VMware Server. To download VMware Server, you will need to create a login and obtain a free license key from VMware's website. This was done using the Windows version of VMware Server 1.0.4.  Steps should be the same for Linux based host OS's.