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

[Derek Broughton]

Eric Dunbar wrote:

> On 04/02/07, Derek Broughton <news at pointerstop.ca> wrote:

>> Well, no.  Why would I be using Server when it's so simple to install
>> Player...
> 
> That's your decision. This morning (7/2/7) someone posted a message
> about VMware as well (unrelated to my threads) -- one of the links
> there pointed to a page where someone was editing a VMware VM
> configuration file manually to add a partition to the computer.
> 
> ... but, if you have VMware it's easy as pie ;-) (perhaps the third
> party VMware configuration software can set up partitions or drives to
> be mounted by the VM).

With VMPlayer, and www.easyvmx.com, setting up a virtual disk installation
is trivial.  With vmplayer and IDE drives, manual configuration is still
pretty simple using the physical partition.

It's the idea of using the physical partition on a SATA drive that is
difficult, and I'm not yet convinced that vmware-server is going to help me
much.
> 
> PS One consideration re: VMware Player is that the EULA _supposedly_
> (I haven't bothered to investigate) prohibits its use as a server.

Possibly - who reads EULAs :-)  Probably 95% of VMWare users have no
intention of ever using it as a server (your situation obviously being
different).
-- 
derek