To: UNC Linux Users Group <unclug AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [unclug] wine not a solution
Date: Fri, 19 May 2006 14:54:29 -0400
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).