Randall R Schulz wrote:
> 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.

At least on a FAT partition Windows looks for changes with every access.
The problem is, if both systems access the file system _at the same
time_. This will most probably end in disaster.
How a vmware Linux would behave on a linux host, with async mount, I
never tried. Also an NTFS-partition could behave worse, I neither
checked this one.

Ciao
Siegbert

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