<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 TRANSITIONAL//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; CHARSET=UTF-8"> <META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="GtkHTML/3.12.1"> </HEAD> <BODY> On Fri, 2006-11-10 at 22:48 +0100, Mario Vukelic wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE> <PRE> On Sat, 2006-11-11 at 07:20 +1100, ruscook wrote: > Exactly! I did this and it's fiddly and it broke easily. The problem > being, my family members just didn't understand the profiles, loaded > the wrong ones for the environment they were using and broke windows. Yeah, well, I understand your pain, but that doesn't meant that vmware cannot do what was asked </PRE> </BLOCKQUOTE> Agreed. Technically it worked, Practically it wasn't the right solution for me. I am happily using VMWare server in Ubuntu when I absolutley have to access windows and it's great. When I get some more skills I'll try Xen and see if it is even closer to native speeds which if so would be great! <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE> <PRE> > I now do separate installations and mount common directories/drives > on the local machine to access data across instances. More work to > setup, easier to maintain when others are involved. Sure this makes sense in some cases, but it does not solve everything. I have both Windows (work image) and Ubuntu (private) installed on my work laptop, and I am currently considering the solution with the profiles to be able to run the work image in parallel when I have booted Ubuntu. </PRE> </BLOCKQUOTE> I'm currently trialling symlink from ubuntu home dir to NTFS partition My Documents directory so the family can access their data (not mail profiles, bookmarks unfortunately) from either Ubuntu or Windows. <TABLE CELLSPACING="0" CELLPADDING="0" WIDTH="100%"> <TR> <TD> Kind Regards Russell ================== www.windsorcycles.com.au sales@windsorcycles.com.au ph. 02 4577 3209 bikes.no-ip.info Linux user #369094 ================== </TD> </TR> </TABLE> </BODY> </HTML>