running Linux at work with Windows apps

[Michael O'Donnell]

> The question more specifically:
> If you are running VMWare and the Linux OS is running and the
> Windows OS is not running, can Linux access any files in the
> Windows container, or must Windows be running.  In Win4Lin, since
> the Windows directories are part of the Linux file system, all the
> Windows files are directly accessable by Linux rather than via SMB.


I can't think of any reason in principle that you couldn't
loopback mount the filesystems contained in any of the
disk images Windows uses.  It might require judicious use
of losetup's -o option if you need to tiptoe past the
MBR and other junk at the beginning of a disk image,
but I do similar kinds of things all the time.