On Friday 11 January 2008 19:19, PerfectReign wrote:
> On my laptop, I'm running Wintendo Vista and VMWare with openSUSE
> 10.3 as the guest. I'm wondering - and I've googled this - how do I
> mount the host filesystem so I can do stuff. I want to burn a DVD
> with openSUSE, since there are no good tools in Windows to do this
> which match K3B.
>
> Ideas?

If you're running one of the $pay$ versions of VNware, you can do this 
easily and directly using the "shared folders" feature. You configure 
this in the "Options" tab of the Virtual Machine Settings dialog. (This 
is based on VMware 5.5; I'm sure the essence is the same on 6.0 even if 
some of the UI details have changed.) You can map any number of 
directories in the host file system to what appear to be remote shares 
or drives in the Windows guest.

I only know for a fact that you can do this when Windows is the guest 
OS, which is by far the preferable approach since that way Windows' 
poor use of hardware resources doesn't degrade the performance of a 
Linux guest.

And the whole shared folders thing is not included in the 
VMware "Server" (the $free$ version).


Randall Schulz
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