VMware shared folder

[Sy]

I'd assume that if you allocated 4GB the guest OS only sees a total
capacity of 4GB.. so 3.5GB left sounds right.


I had a setup where I had various windows' storing their information
on a real partition.  Thinking this was a great way for the guest and
host OS' to trade files.

I ended up silently destroying my data.  Please do not do this.  Set
up some kind of standard method like FTP or network folders to trade
files between the systems.

I tinkered briefly with the hgfs stuff and couldn't get it working.. I
gave up.  I use FTP to trade files back and forth when I need to,
which is rare.

Sy,


On 8/16/05, Steve <bassix-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>  
>  I hope this isn't OT, but I have a question about running VMware in Ubuntu.
>  
>  After setting up VMware in Ubuntu, I installed winxp as the guest OS,
> allocating the default 4GB and placed it on a FAT32 partition. Everything
> works great so far.
>  
>  I created a folder on this FAT32 partition and chose it as my shared folder
> in VMware. I am able to access it within VMware/winxp. All is fine so far.
>  
>  My problem is that in the guest OS (winxp) it says that there is only 3.5GB
> free in this shared folder, even though I know that the drive has over 10GB
> free. Is there a setting somewhere that denotes the size of the shared
> folder in VMware? I could not find any. Is it an idiosyncrasy of the
> filesystem it is on (FAT32)? Is it a limitation of VMware?
>  
>  Any help would be appreciated!
>  
>  Thanks!
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