Sharing files between Ubuntu 6.06 and Windows XP Pro - best disk format to use

[Eric Dunbar]

On 03/02/07, Derek Broughton <news at pointerstop.ca> wrote:
> Eric Dunbar wrote:
>
> > Hi, another question:
> >
> > I'd like to share files for read-write access between Windows XP and
> > Ubuntu 6.06. To be specific, I'd like to share two partitions: 1. a VM
> > (virtual machine for VMware); and, 2. files to be served up by apache
> > and smbd in that VM.
> >
> > What is the best disk format to use? FAT, NTFS, ext3?
>
> I'm still pretty new to VMWare (just installed this week), but surely from
> the VM's viewpoint, you really only have the option of using the Host
> system's files, shared via Samba, so if your host is Linux, use your FS of
> choice, and if your host is Windows, use NTFS.  And of course, files served
> by Apache are "HTTP", not FAT, NTFS or EXT3.  I wouldn't put anything on a
> FAT filesystem.

Or, as I discovered this evening, you can map a drive or a partition
to your VM and avoid messing with Samba (need to be running vmware as
root, however).

Eric.