virtual machines

[Sy Ali]

On 8/16/07, Kevin Cozens <kevin-4dS5u2o1hCn3fQ9qLvQP4Q at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> One of these days I'm going to read up on VMWare to find out if I can actually
> use it with an existing Windows partition without having to umount the
> partition. I have several Linux apps that access data stored in the Windows
> side of the machine (ie. Firefox bookmarks, Thunderbird e-mail).

This used to not be possible.  I did fair testing and learned that
while the functionality was there and reported as there, there were
notes hidden in documentation which say it's untested and unsupported.
 At the time when i was testing it would quietly obliterate your
files.

So.. this functionality might still not be supported.

I wanted to do things this way so that I wouldn't have to bother
installing fancy vmware connectivity software within that installation
in order to transfer files back and forth.
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