On 28/03/06, Jeff Rollin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi.
On 28/03/06, Jeff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:Hey all.
I have a question for any VMWare Linux users. My greatest concern, is
Windows being installed and run on top of Linux. When Windows is
'virtually' up and running, does it work as normal? AKA, does it detect
devices and what not, enabling printing, networking, etc?
VMWare basically emulates a subset of PC hardware (an Intel processor, RAM, graphics, sound, and network cards). These are usually "VMWare-specific" or very common hardware devices, but VMWare releases the specifications for, e.g. its graphics-card emulation so that people can write drivers for them. AFAIK, all current versions of Windows should run on VMWare.
No modification of the guest operating system beyond choosing the correct drivers is required; Windows should do this itself. You may experience some difficulty if you attempt to use the same partition for both a VMWare-hosted guest OS and "standalone", i.e. running it on the hardware rather than in VMWare.
VMWare should give you:
SVGA graphics
Centronics printer interface
Networking
CD-ROM drive
USB ports (??)
You will NOT be able to use any hardware from Windows that the host (presumably Gentoo Linux) cannot use itself. Conversely, if the hardware device is supported in Windows then VMware can use it to provide functionality not available in another system. (For example, I use FreeBSD under VMWare on a Windows XP laptop so that I can use its network bridging functionality to take advantage of wireless networking.)
With Windows
running under VMWare, are you able to scan the host operating system's
file system in any way?
I haven't used VMWare for a very long time. Just wanted to get some input.
Thanks much!
-Jeff--
If you make a hard drive from a file (the default), you will be able to use any tools you would use on a normal Linux file, but e.g. you will not be able to write to NTFS unless you set up shares between the host and guest using samba. If you install the guest OS directly onto a hard drive or partition, then you will be limited to using the partition and filesystem-editing tools in Linux, but again you can use samba to network the host and guest filesystems.
Jeff
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"I have /conquered Gaul/,
and subdued Pompey! I think I can handle
a small boy and a eunuch!"
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"I have /conquered Gaul/,
and subdued Pompey! I think I can handle
a small boy and a eunuch!"
-- Ciaran Hinds as Caesar -
ROME, BBC/HBO, 2004
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