Hi Desire,
Yes, i did consider the speed and inefficiencies, and figured that i
could live with that. i did not know about the security issues though.
i followed the link below. Seems like they have patched most of the
vulnerabilities (with a simple workaround for the remaining unpatched
one). But in general, this is a good point. Using samba, there's always
a possibility that access may "leak" to the rest of the host system, due
to whatever yet unfound vulnerability. Whereas if i access the physical
partition as a, well, physical partition, access would definitely be
limited to that physical partition (do i even know what i'm talking
about...)
Thanks and Regards,
Edwin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi Edwin,
Just my $.02. Samba has historically had numerous security
vulnerabilities http://secunia.com/product/2999/?task=advisories so I
would also avoid running that on the host if possible. Even if you
apply firewall restrictions to restrict access to samba, a compromised
guest VM could still compromise your host.
In addition, it is bound to be slower and more inefficient - data
travels through cpu and network on host and guest, and data is also
cached in memory twice by server and client.
On Jan 1, 2008 10:19 PM, Edwin Lee < [EMAIL PROTECTED]
<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote:
Hi Puqing,
Thanks for the suggestion, i have found this option, but it gives me
some difficulties. i run vmware as a normal user, not root, so when i
tried to configure it to use a physical partition, it gives me the
error
message that i have no permission to access the disk, and i definitely
don't want to start vmware server as root.
The samba option seems to work well.
Thanks and Regards,
Edwin
Chen wrote:
> As I remember, vmware supports using physical disk/partition in the
> vm, doesn't it? Just "add a device" and choose a physical disk.
>
> Not very sure, though. Maybe you can give it a try.
>
> Puqing
>
>
>
>>>>> From: Edwin Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >
>>>>> To: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
>>>>> Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2007 13:15:31 +0800
>>>>> Subject: [Slugnet] Accessing "Real" Partition From Within VM
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>>
>>>>> i have XP installed on VMWare Server on Ubuntu. Is it
possible to have
>>>>> the XP access one of the real partitions (formatted FAT32)
as though it
>>>>> is a drive within the virtual machine itself? How?
>>>>>
>>>>> Happy 2008 in advance!
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks and Regards,
>>>>> Edwin
>>>>>
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