Evening Bryan,
Thanks for the help. There is a devices button at the top of VMware
whereby the floppy can be connected to VMware or connected to the host.
Is that effectively what is meant? When connected to the guest, it
doesn't appear on the "computer" Vista devices screen.
This sounds remarkably similar to when a USB device is attached to
VirtualBox.
When I plug in a USB device, it is first intercepted/recognised by the
host and I get the option to mount it, download files, photos etc. If I
choose to ignore these options and select "do nothing" I can click on
devices->USB Devices in my guest OS and it appears there. If I click on
the device, it's recognised by the guest.
When done, i can un-click it, and then I get presented again by the host
with my USB device options. Very neat, very simple.
My printer, on the other hand, is networked. So it appears as a device
on the network. Mu guest network interface is set to "bridged" which
means it sits on the same network as the host network card does. Result?
I can ping the host from the guest and vice versa. I can also ssh onto
the host from the guest and so on - just like having devices on a real
network.
To this end, I have about 5 different VMs running on my laptop and one
of them runs Scientific Linux which holds my Subversion server and
repositories. The other VMs are used for different projects at work, so
I keep all my source code and documents etc on the Scientific Linux VM
and everything else connects "over the network" to it.
I was never a great fan of VMs and especially VMWare (I used it at work
- very slow on a Win 2000 host - but VirtualBox, I have found, to be
about the best there is.
HTH
Cheers,
Norm.
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