running Linux at work with Windows apps

[Jerry Feldman]

Thanks Paul,
I believe that was not the case on early versions of VMWare. 
On 11 Nov 2002 at 14:30, pll at lanminds.com wrote:

> 
> In a message dated: Mon, 11 Nov 2002 14:02:44 EST
> "Jerry Feldman" said:
> 
> >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.
> 
> The same is true for VMWare if Linux is the Host OS and Windows is 
> the client OS (keep in mind that VMWare can run Linux on Linux, etc. 
> it's not restricted to only Windows like Win4Lin is).
> 
> So, if Linux is the host OS (i.e. natively installed on the 
> physically hw) and then Windows is installed *into* VMWare as a 
> client OS, you can have your files stored natively under the Linux 
> file system.
> 
> Getting all this to work is *easier* if your Windows system installed 
> inside of VMWare is accessing an SMB share, shared out via Samba from 
> your Linux system.  But this configuration is not necessary IIRC 
> (which I may not :).
> 
> But yes, you can access your Windows files from the Linux system 
> natively if VMWare is not running.
> -- 
> 
> Seeya,
> Paul
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