> From: [email protected] [mailto:discuss- > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Jerry Natowitz > > I'm thinking of taking the plunge and setting up a Linux client on Windows 7. > A while ago I read that ext4 for certain, and possibly ext3 had problems with > corruption when used within vmware clients. > > If that was true, is it still the case? > > Also, should I be looking at using LVM so that I can more easily migrate to > larger "disks"?
Never heard of that problem. Do it all the time. Never had a problem. Also at work, deploy and support this exact setup for users, who also never had any such problem. And it also strikes me as illogical anyway - why would ext4 specifically care if it was running inside a VM or physical hardware? That's kind of the point of a VM - the guest needn't know or care that it is a VM. Don't limit yourself to just vmware. Although Workstation and Player are both fine products, I'm biased in favor of VirtualBox, based on experience deploying these. Each solution has pros/cons, you should consider them each and choose what's best for you. _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
