Shriramana, On Monday 30 January 2006 05:42, Shriramana Sharma wrote: > Monday, 30 January 2006 18:43 samaye, Corne Beerse alekhiit: > > For your information, VMWare is there to remove your hardware > > depenency. VMware offers their own virtual hardware and they > > provide upwards compatibility. Which is relative easy in a software > > environment. A VMWare guest always gets the same type of hardware, > > regardless on what physical hardware it runs. > > Apparently this is why I do not see my hard disk partitions when I > run the VMWare virtual SUSE. Is there any work around?
You can configure physical drive access in VMware, but beware the issues others have brought up. It's not a means of inter-OS communication or file sharing, since if two OS's with access to the same physical drives both mount them as file systems concurrently, they'll each be blind to the other's modifications to the disk contents. It might work if they both mount the volumes read-only (I don't even know if Windows has a concept of a read-only mount for read/write media). I do use physical drives for my Windows-under-Linux VMware, because I don't want to sustain the performance cost of virtualizing the mass storage. Randall Schulz --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
