Gustavo Halperin wrote:
Hello
I'm using VmWare, work very good. But if I want use a little aplication from windows.....
Is any way to mount the windows partition of VmWare and use it with Wine ????
Thank you very much
That truely depends on what disk type your VMWare is using.
The partition, originally, is 'ext3', and under VmWare is used on windows like NTFS.
If you are using a disk partition or a straight disk file, you can use losetup (RTFM) to bypass the MBR and stuff, and get to the actual partition. Be sure to NEVER mount it simultaniously on both VMWare and Linux.
What do you mean with losetup (RTFM), what is RTFM??
losetup is really new for me, I so the man and I really dont know what options give. Like
which encription or offset number. Can you give some help with this??
If you are using a smart disk (the default), things are tricker. VMware comes with a utility called "vmware-mount.pl", which does exactly that but for one small problem - it doesn't work.
How can I know I'm using a smart disk?? I also tray the "vmware-mount.pl" but I get there the next
error:
>vmware-mount.pl /data1/win2k/win2k-1.vmdk 1 /mnt/vmware
Detected ntfs filesystem type.
Warning: Tried to read beyond EOF
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/nb0,
or too many mounted file systems
Do you know this error or how fix the problem ??
In the past, using some strace magic, I managed to get it working (don't remeber whether it was it or vmware-loop). Unfortunetly, I can't remeber how I did it. If you come across the info, do let me know as well.
A third option you may wish to consider is to use an SMB mount. Either mount your vmware windows folder on Linux, or place the files on Linux to begin with and mount them on your Windows box. VMWare even offers to set this config up for you automatically, but I can't vouch for a how good that works.
I really afraid about SMB Daemon, I don't really know how use it and therefor I afraid about leave
back doors on my computers. And also don't know exactly use this.
Shachar
Any way , Thank for you answers Gusti
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