running Linux at work with Windows apps

[Tom Buskey]

"Roger H. Goun" said:
>On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 12:52:16PM -0500, Tom Buskey wrote:
>> Unfortunately, VMware changed the file format of thier virtual disks
>> going from 2.x to 3.x.  This doesn't work with the .vmdk files.  The old
>> format was just a dd image.  The new one has different data structures
>> in it.
>> 
>> So it's back to running the client and using smbclient //<ipaddress of 
>> client on vmnet1>/<filesystem> in linux.
>> 
>> Or have raw partitions and mount directly.
>
>I was about to protest that it still works for me, but VMware
>3.2.0-2230 just crashed and burned and told me to request support, so
>maybe not. :-)

I just downloaded the vmmount stuff & it didn't work on my .vmdk files. 
 Were you able to use it on a .vmdk file or is it a .dsk file?  Maybe I 
need to rebuild.  My .vmdk is the result of upgrades from VMware 2.x.  
I'm running 3.2 too.
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Tom Buskey