UNC Linux Users Group

[Jeff Bollinger <jeff01 AT email.unc.edu>]

Jesse Aaron Safir wrote:
> Cristobal,
> 
> I have VMWare Workstation 5.0.  I've run it on Windows and run Linux
> inside.  I could also run it on Linux and run Windows inside.  The problem
> with virtualization like this though is that it's not always easy to share
> files between the host and guest OSes.  There's also the FREE version of
> WMWare Virtual Server, which used to be called GSX.  I'm running that on a
> RHEL4 server now and it works about the same as VMWare Workstation.

I've never had trouble sharing files between the 'guest' and 'host'
operating systems using a Windows VMWare image on a Fedora box.  In fact
I tend to prefer this option since I usually don't allocate a huge
amount of NTFS/FAT space for my Windows box anyway (usually just enough
for the OS and my apps).

Jeff