Re: [Freedos-devel] OT: mount a local directory onto VMWare
On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 3:17 PM, Aitor Santamaría [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello: I seem to remember that there was an easy way to mount a local win directory inside VMWare (as an extra driver or whatever), but I can't find the reference, could someone give me a clue? [...] I don't know how VMWare does it, but under VirtualBox it's easy to make a folder on the host OS available to the guest OS as a network share. On VirtualBox, it's \\vboxsvr\share, where 'share' is the share name. On my system, I make /home/jhall available as \\vboxsvr\jhall. This works great to work on files from a virtualized Windows, but use my regular email client (on Linux) access them so I can email docs to people. (I use VirtualBox to run Windows, so I can use Visio at work.) I know you weren't interested in using the network bridge, but there you are anyway ... :-) -jh - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100url=/ ___ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
Re: [Freedos-devel] OT: mount a local directory onto VMWare
Hi Aitor, This is not OT at all :) if you are using FreeDOS in VMware, there is no way of doing it. Alternatives are: - dosemu: it can do it very nicely - use ftp from Eric Engelke, it is only 45k - msclient, worst of all, but it should work. VMware can do that only for XP and it is a XP special deriver :( Cheers, Alain Aitor Santamaría escreveu: Hello: I seem to remember that there was an easy way to mount a local win directory inside VMWare (as an extra driver or whatever), but I can't find the reference, could someone give me a clue? I am not interested in something elaborate such as using the network bridge. Something as simple as to be able to browse inside a virtual VMWare disk before powering the machine would do. I just want to make it easy to bring files forth and back VM-Ware, as currently I am using a floppy, and it's damn slow. Thanks in advance and sorry for the off-topic! Aitor - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100url=/ ___ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100url=/ ___ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
Re: [Freedos-devel] OT: mount a local directory onto VMWare
On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 3:59 PM, Alain M. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Aitor, This is not OT at all :) if you are using FreeDOS in VMware, there is no way of doing it. Alternatives are: - dosemu: it can do it very nicely - use ftp from Eric Engelke, it is only 45k - msclient, worst of all, but it should work. I run FreeDOS under DOSEmu, and that makes it dead simple to share files between Linux (the host OS) and FreeDOS (guest OS). My C: drive is already mapped to a directory in my Linux $HOME. In $HOME/.dosemu/drives, my c is a symlink to my $HOME/freedos/1.0-base/ directory. You can guess what version of FreeDOS I have installed there. :-) Any files that FreeDOS writes to the disk is just a file in my $HOME/freedos/1.0-base/ directory. From Linux, I just go there to pick up the file. Makes it easy to drop off files (like the E Editor ... see other email) to experiment with in FreeDOS. -jh - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100url=/ ___ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
Re: [Freedos-devel] OT: mount a local directory onto VMWare
Thanks to both, I knew the DOSEMU stuff, and was new to VirtualBox!! Incidentally, some minutes later I've found it, it is called DiskMount: http://www.vmware.com/download/eula/diskmount_ws_v55.html and it is a pure commandline tool that works acceptably ok. It does just that: mounts the disk onto a My PC drive letter (I haven't tried yet how it would react to a disk with multiple partitions). You cannot have it mounted as you run the VM, but for me it is ok, as I just want to replace the floppy. Thanks again! Aitor 2008/9/3, Jim Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 3:59 PM, Alain M. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Aitor, This is not OT at all :) if you are using FreeDOS in VMware, there is no way of doing it. Alternatives are: - dosemu: it can do it very nicely - use ftp from Eric Engelke, it is only 45k - msclient, worst of all, but it should work. I run FreeDOS under DOSEmu, and that makes it dead simple to share files between Linux (the host OS) and FreeDOS (guest OS). My C: drive is already mapped to a directory in my Linux $HOME. In $HOME/.dosemu/drives, my c is a symlink to my $HOME/freedos/1.0-base/ directory. You can guess what version of FreeDOS I have installed there. :-) Any files that FreeDOS writes to the disk is just a file in my $HOME/freedos/1.0-base/ directory. From Linux, I just go there to pick up the file. Makes it easy to drop off files (like the E Editor ... see other email) to experiment with in FreeDOS. -jh - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100url=/ ___ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100url=/ ___ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
Re: [Freedos-devel] OT: mount a local directory onto VMWare
Interesting... can you use it to mount directories or only disks and/or partitions? It makes a big difference because a disk cannot be accessed by two OSes... Alain Aitor Santamaría escreveu: Thanks to both, I knew the DOSEMU stuff, and was new to VirtualBox!! Incidentally, some minutes later I've found it, it is called DiskMount: http://www.vmware.com/download/eula/diskmount_ws_v55.html and it is a pure commandline tool that works acceptably ok. It does just that: mounts the disk onto a My PC drive letter (I haven't tried yet how it would react to a disk with multiple partitions). You cannot have it mounted as you run the VM, but for me it is ok, as I just want to replace the floppy. Thanks again! Aitor 2008/9/3, Jim Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 3:59 PM, Alain M. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Aitor, This is not OT at all :) if you are using FreeDOS in VMware, there is no way of doing it. Alternatives are: - dosemu: it can do it very nicely - use ftp from Eric Engelke, it is only 45k - msclient, worst of all, but it should work. I run FreeDOS under DOSEmu, and that makes it dead simple to share files between Linux (the host OS) and FreeDOS (guest OS). My C: drive is already mapped to a directory in my Linux $HOME. In $HOME/.dosemu/drives, my c is a symlink to my $HOME/freedos/1.0-base/ directory. You can guess what version of FreeDOS I have installed there. :-) Any files that FreeDOS writes to the disk is just a file in my $HOME/freedos/1.0-base/ directory. From Linux, I just go there to pick up the file. Makes it easy to drop off files (like the E Editor ... see other email) to experiment with in FreeDOS. -jh - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100url=/ ___ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100url=/ ___ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100url=/ ___ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
Re: [Freedos-devel] OT: mount a local directory onto VMWare
I have only superficially explored it all, but apparently you can only mount entire VMDK disks, and probably (reading the /?) you can mount its separate partitions. But I guess once you mount some partition you cannot use it to boot VMWare, unless you have umounted everything. Aitor 2008/9/4, Alain M. [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Interesting... can you use it to mount directories or only disks and/or partitions? It makes a big difference because a disk cannot be accessed by two OSes... Alain Aitor Santamaría escreveu: Thanks to both, I knew the DOSEMU stuff, and was new to VirtualBox!! Incidentally, some minutes later I've found it, it is called DiskMount: http://www.vmware.com/download/eula/diskmount_ws_v55.html and it is a pure commandline tool that works acceptably ok. It does just that: mounts the disk onto a My PC drive letter (I haven't tried yet how it would react to a disk with multiple partitions). You cannot have it mounted as you run the VM, but for me it is ok, as I just want to replace the floppy. Thanks again! Aitor 2008/9/3, Jim Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 3:59 PM, Alain M. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Aitor, This is not OT at all :) if you are using FreeDOS in VMware, there is no way of doing it. Alternatives are: - dosemu: it can do it very nicely - use ftp from Eric Engelke, it is only 45k - msclient, worst of all, but it should work. I run FreeDOS under DOSEmu, and that makes it dead simple to share files between Linux (the host OS) and FreeDOS (guest OS). My C: drive is already mapped to a directory in my Linux $HOME. In $HOME/.dosemu/drives, my c is a symlink to my $HOME/freedos/1.0-base/ directory. You can guess what version of FreeDOS I have installed there. :-) Any files that FreeDOS writes to the disk is just a file in my $HOME/freedos/1.0-base/ directory. From Linux, I just go there to pick up the file. Makes it easy to drop off files (like the E Editor ... see other email) to experiment with in FreeDOS. -jh - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100url=/ ___ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100url=/ ___ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100url=/ ___ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100url=/ ___ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
