VMware and Linux

Jimmyscab · 12-14-2002, 07:30 AM

is there anyway in which the guest operating system (linux) and host OS (WinXP) can interact with each other ?

cos i dont have a floppy drive, so i cant copy files onto a disk and transfer between them.

thx

Electrode · 12-14-2002, 09:49 AM

Maybe mount your WinXP drive in Linux with Samba?

mount -t smbfs -o username=Administrator,password=password //windows_box_name/C$ /mnt/disk

Or, if you have a spare hard drive, set up VMware to use it in "raw mode" and install Linux on it. Use the Ext2 filesystem, then use Explore2fs in Windows to access the Linux partitions.

Jimmyscab · 12-17-2002, 09:56 AM

whats the difference between setting up Linux in raw mode under VMware and just installing Linux the normal way i.e under its own partition ?

deadbug · 12-17-2002, 05:22 PM

It might be simpler when you are installing Linux to put a small FAT32 partition between Windows and Linux. It would do what you were mentioning a floppy would do and without special configurations, new software or trying to write to an NTFS partition (very bad idea).