Win4Lin Home Edition

[Mark Komarinski]

On Wed, Feb 16, 2005 at 05:48:33PM -0500, Bill McGonigle wrote:
> On Feb 16, 2005, at 13:57, Bill Sconce wrote:
> 
> >There is now a
> >new version of Win4Lin which DOES support W2000 and XP.  It's a deeper
> >technology than the DOS-emulation approach used for W9X.
> 
> Just saw it myself today.  One nice aspect of it is they have a way to 
> map Windows folders to linux directories, apparently without going 
> through a samba layer like VMWare.  It'll be out soon.  Very slick.

VMWare does allow for direct file access not using samba.  It's just that
you have the same permissions as the user running vmware.  I think they're
called "local folders" or the like.

I'd go into more detail, but my VMWare install is at work right now.

-Mark
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