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["Chee How Chua" <chuacheehow@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Jan 13, 2008 9:28 PM, Manfred Hollstein <manfred@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sat, 12 Jan 2008, 04:19:11 +0100, PerfectReign wrote:
> > On my laptop, I'm running Wintendo Vista and VMWare with openSUSE 10.3
> > as the guest. I'm wondering - and I've googled this - how do I mount
> > the host filesystem so I can do stuff. I want to burn a DVD with
> > openSUSE, since there are no good tools in Windows to do this which
> > match K3B.
> >
> > Ideas?
>
> There's no magic required... VMware Server at least includes everything
> you need; the tool is called "vmware-mount.pl". Here's how to invoke it:
>
> Usage: /usr/bin/vmware-mount.pl
>         -p          : Print the partition table
>         disk        : Name of the Virtual Hard Disk file
> or
>         disk        : Name of the Virtual Hard Disk file
>         partition   : Number of the partition
>         [-t type]   : Partition type
>         [-o options]: Partition mount options(s)
>         mount-point : Directory where to mount the partition
>
> AFAIK, you can only mount it when the corresponding virtual machine is
> not actively running.
>
> HTH, cheers.
>
> l8er
> manfred

This command mounts the virtual machine as a file system in the host
system right?

I think what he wants is to mount some parts of the host file system
in the guest system.
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