VMWare in Fedora Land

Michael Mansour micoots at yahoo.com
Tue Mar 16 11:13:34 UTC 2004


> > > I have VMWare v4.0.5 sitting here, running XP in
> a
> > > 20G virtual drive. I
> > > was wondering if there was a way to tell it of a
> > > seperate (real) drive I
> > > have in my machine, which normally houses a 120G
> XP
> > > installation.  This
> > > would be quite cool, as it would provide me a
> > > network path to this 120G
> > > partition which I could then read and write
> from!
> 
> > Do you install the vmware-tools package for
> Windows XP
> > within that virtual session? because if anything
> would
> > have that package would.
> 
> I did, and there's nothing in there for it ..
> 
> > When looking at the disk partitions in the virtual
> XP
> > machine, do you see other drives there or just the
> > virtual drive?
> 
> XP in VMWare can only see the virtual drive.

Yeah, I don't think it's officially supported, it used
to be years ago, but since then things have changed
with VMWare. EMC own them now don't they?

Michael.

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