VMware for linux

Oxyacetylene · 07-14-2004, 10:04 AM

I am thinking of installing VMware for linux. I have used it in Windows so I am familiar with it. In Windows it creates virtual network adapters that show up in the OS as VMware virtual adapters. Does it do this in linux as well? I am curious as to how much it changes the core OS when it is installed. With VMware workstation edition for linux can you give the virtual machines access to a physical disk parition and not just the virtual disks?

yourEgg · 07-15-2004, 05:06 AM

It provides quite a few differnt networking options. I use bridged networking, which just creaes a virtual network card, which gets its own ip from my routers DHCP server. I can then conect to my Linux based SAMBA shares as any other windows client would, ad write to the physical disk that way.

They do a free trial BTW

Oxyacetylene · 07-15-2004, 08:05 AM

Does the virtual network card it creates show up in linux or only in the virtual machine? I'm kinda familiar with the networking options and how they work when using VMware for Windows since I've used it installed on XP.

yourEgg · 07-15-2004, 09:04 AM

From /dev on my machine

crw------- 1 root root 119, 0 Jul 12 11:51 vmnet0
crw------- 1 root root 119, 1 Jul 12 11:51 vmnet1
crw------- 1 root root 119, 2 Jul 12 11:51 vmnet2

Think thats a yes.

Oxyacetylene · 07-15-2004, 09:36 AM

ok that makes sense. Can you give your virtual machines access to the physical disks and partitions, or only to the virtual disks that you create for the virtual machine? I'm just trying to get a couple questions answered before I start installing and configuring it.

yourEgg · 07-15-2004, 10:06 AM

Theres a feature called shared folders, which lets you map a host filesystem directly.

I dont think you can say that the /windows folder (say) is mapped to a host location.

Oxyacetylene · 07-15-2004, 10:17 AM

ok cool. Thanks for the info!!

yourEgg · 07-15-2004, 10:32 AM

k. one thing to be aware of, they have broken the sound in windows clients as of version 4.5. May no be an issue, but for myself I develop a lot of Flash Web sites, and its a real pain.

try b4 I guess.

Oxyacetylene · 07-15-2004, 10:43 AM

hmm interesting. Thanks for the tip. If I decide to go this route I think I can do without the sound.