virtual machines

[Mike Kallies]

On 8/17/07, Sy Ali <sy1234-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> 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.

You can always use the guest OS to share the folders on the "network"
and mount them on your host Linux system.  Then the guest OS will use
its networking support to deal with locking open files on the guest
partition and other dumb stuff.

I assume by connectivity software, you mean that package in VMWare
workstation (which is not free), which lets you share directories and
stuff?

-Mike
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