On Tue, 2006-01-31 at 00:55 +0530, Shriramana Sharma wrote: > Offlist. Please do not take discussions off list unless asked.
> > > I did not mean for my answer to seem so harsh. > > That's all right then. > > > started. And yes you can mount an existing partition (not virtual) in a > > VMware virtual machine but I would not recommend doing so to a partition > > already mounted by the host system. > > Well the VMWare Player runs on Windows XP and Win XP certainly does not mount > my SUSE reiserfs partitions. So can I please know the procedure to mount my > SUSE reiserfs partitions on the virtual machine -- if I'm not taking too much > of your time? If the virtual machine is running XP you will have to ask someone from a XP mailing list, as far as I know it is not possible. Blame M$ not linux. If wanting to mount a partition from a host system running linux in a virtual machine running linux you need to do that will the virtual machine setup dialog while the VM is not running. > > > If you are referring to MS windows > > style shares you can create shares in linux (using samba) to share with > > your windows machines and vice-versa. > > I am totally ignorant of this kind of "shares", except when long time back I > did some small Windows networking at my school when I was "sysadmin". > Then -you- need to do some research on the internet, perhaps http://www.samba.org would be a good place to start. Unless you do some of the work yourself first you will find very few people that will want to keep spoon feeding you. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
