Re: [opensuse] Re: Distributing OpenSUSE vmware image containing non GPLed packages

Randall R Schulz wrote:

You can configure physical drive access in VMware, but beware the issues others have brought up. It's not a means of inter-OS communication or file sharing, since if two OS's with access to the same physical drives both mount them as file systems concurrently, they'll each be blind to the other's modifications to the disk contents.

At least on a FAT partition Windows looks for changes with every access. The problem is, if both systems access the file system _at the same time_. This will most probably end in disaster. How a vmware Linux would behave on a linux host, with async mount, I never tried. Also an NTFS-partition could behave worse, I neither checked this one. Ciao Siegbert