UNC Linux Users Group

[Jesse Aaron Safir <jesse_safir AT unc.edu>]

Jeff,

Are you sharing with SAMBA or through VMWare itself?

> 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
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