[opensuse] VMWare - How to View Host
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? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Friday 11 January 2008 19:19, 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?
If you're running one of the $pay$ versions of VNware, you can do this easily and directly using the "shared folders" feature. You configure this in the "Options" tab of the Virtual Machine Settings dialog. (This is based on VMware 5.5; I'm sure the essence is the same on 6.0 even if some of the UI details have changed.) You can map any number of directories in the host file system to what appear to be remote shares or drives in the Windows guest. I only know for a fact that you can do this when Windows is the guest OS, which is by far the preferable approach since that way Windows' poor use of hardware resources doesn't degrade the performance of a Linux guest. And the whole shared folders thing is not included in the VMware "Server" (the $free$ version). Randall Schulz -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Jan 13, 2008 9:28 PM, Manfred Hollstein <manfred@die-hollsteins.de> 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. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Sun, January 13, 2008 5:03 pm, Chee How Chua wrote:
On Jan 13, 2008 9:28 PM, Manfred Hollstein <manfred@die-hollsteins.de> 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 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.
Yes, that is correct. And - since I'm no longer using my Apple IIe, I want to right-click on something to mount it, not use a script or command line. I installed VMWare Tools (thought I had previously) and I'll see. Running Wintendo inside a VMWare session I have the host machine under the Network Neighborhood. This doesn't seem to be the case in openSUSE as the guest in a Vista host. Thanks for all the tips! -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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