Win98 is full of caching stuff...
Only problem with accessing it is that the VM won't see the changes till it
reboots...
Eric Laberge wrote:
> At 17:19 2000-12-15 -0500, you wrote:
> >Still don't see why I should be denied access to the raw HD... I modify a
> >FAT32
> >partition via mount when I'm running Windows in VMWare....
>
> Sorry if what I said was confusing, but my idea is that in order to avoid
> problems, it should be better not to touch the disk image between a suspend
> and a resume. If you want to do so, fine, but I strongly suggest you to
> reboot the guest operating system, in this case, just like you normally
> would with a real computer. IMHO, mounting a partition while accessing it
> with another program, like you just said you did with VMWare, isn't a good
> idea at all, and falls back to the "unsupported" category. As soon as an
> operating system has any caching mechanism, you screw up everything, this way.
> The bottom line is: "If you want to change anything from outside the guest,
> then turn off the guest first, or be prepared for bad things to happen."
>
> EL
