vmware-- upgrade show stopper 7.3 --> FC
Paul Howarth
paul at city-fan.org
Mon Nov 15 10:51:35 UTC 2004
Mark Neidorff wrote:
> It is long, long past time for me to upgrade my RH 7.3 system to FC.
>
> Currently, I'm running kernel 2.4.20-13.7 and an unofficially patched
> version of vmware workstation 3.2.0. The unofficial patching was needed
> to make vmware work with that kernel version. It does, but not perfectly.
> Things that don't work: floppy drive, writing to a CD burner. Things that
> barely work: printing. Now I need to get some files out of vmware so that
> I can migrate to FC, but the files are locked away in vmware's "disk".
> Does anyone have a way of getting these files out of vmware so that I can
> back them up and upgrade? Before you ask, I have checked the vmware site
> and tried googling for an answer. No help. Oh yeah, I really don't want
> to upgrade vmware. I want to try another solution with FC.
Set up a samba server on your host machine, connect to it from VMware and copy
the files you need to save to the samba share.
Paul.
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