On Feb 17, 2008 6:12 PM, Carlos E. R.
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The Sunday 2008-02-17 at 17:50 -0500, Greg Freemyer wrote:
See? There is no need to warn about wrong kernel version, use any network, etc. I did it. It just took some time for me to think it out, I thought I would have to use the device mapper when I discovered the -o option for losetup.
I think they call that "whistling to your grave", or something like that.
Seriously, the above creates a situation where both vmware and suse think they own the drive and are maintaining there own caches, etc. This gets extremely dangerous if they both start making changes. ie. they both can claim an inode for different uses. lots of other issues.
No! No, because I make certain that the virtual machine has been stopped first. I know very well I must not make use of the same file structure at the same time from vmware and linux.
So _if_ you want direct access like this, you have to use a CFS (cluster file system). Those are typically implemented via a network!!!! And I don't know any that are multi-OS.
I have not followed this thread, so I don't know what vmware is suggesting, but I would just share the drive out of the guest and use NFS or CIFS to mount it on the host. Those are layered protocols that live above the base local filesystem.
That's what I normally use, but it is very slow (in my machine the guest is real slow), and I wanted to run antivir on the disk image and not be waiting a whole day.
So I wanted full direct access to the virtual disk - in read only mode, just in case.
Are your vmware virtual drives fully allocated, or did you set them up to grow as needed? If fully allocated, I don't immediately see a problem with what your doing, especially if it is read-only. I have no idea how the"grow as needed" vmware drives are structured, but somehow I doubt a simple loopback device will work. Greg -- Greg Freemyer Litigation Triage Solutions Specialist http://www.linkedin.com/in/gregfreemyer First 99 Days Litigation White Paper - http://www.norcrossgroup.com/forms/whitepapers/99%20Days%20whitepaper.pdf The Norcross Group The Intersection of Evidence & Technology http://www.norcrossgroup.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org