[ale] VMware pre-NewbieQ

[Eric VanWieren]

John,

You have stumbled across the biggest problem with VMWare. The problem is
that each of the Virtual Machines (VM's) can only see the disks that are
partitioned for it. Therefore, you will not be able to see a shared disk
straight from the server.

There is a solution to this. The solution is to run samba on your underlying
OS and export the shares to your other machines. Then you can mount the
samba share from your Windows Machine and your linux machine. If you do not
want to use samba, you can create an NFS mount. The only issue there is you
have to download Unix tools for Windows from Microsoft. It is still an
option.

Hope this information helps,

Eric

On 10/18/06, John Mills <johnmills at speakeasy.net> wrote:
>
> ALErs -
>
> I am considering VMware with some current Linux (FC5, SuSE-10, ...) as
> underlying OS, and running WinXP-Pro as a VM. How can I establish commonly
> visible disk space between Linux and Windows as a transfer area I can
> confidently read and write from either environmnent?
>
> TIA.
>
> - Mills
>
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