Hi Edwin, Just my $.02. Samba has historically had numerous security vulnerabilities http://secunia.com/product/2999/?task=advisories so I would also avoid running that on the host if possible. Even if you apply firewall restrictions to restrict access to samba, a compromised guest VM could still compromise your host.
In addition, it is bound to be slower and more inefficient - data travels through cpu and network on host and guest, and data is also cached in memory twice by server and client. On Jan 1, 2008 10:19 PM, Edwin Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Puqing, > > Thanks for the suggestion, i have found this option, but it gives me > some difficulties. i run vmware as a normal user, not root, so when i > tried to configure it to use a physical partition, it gives me the error > message that i have no permission to access the disk, and i definitely > don't want to start vmware server as root. > > The samba option seems to work well. > > > > Thanks and Regards, > Edwin > > > > Chen wrote: > > As I remember, vmware supports using physical disk/partition in the > > vm, doesn't it? Just "add a device" and choose a physical disk. > > > > Not very sure, though. Maybe you can give it a try. > > > > Puqing > > > > > > > >>>>> From: Edwin Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >>>>> To: [email protected] > >>>>> Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2007 13:15:31 +0800 > >>>>> Subject: [Slugnet] Accessing "Real" Partition From Within VM > >>>>> > >>>>> Hi all, > >>>>> > >>>>> i have XP installed on VMWare Server on Ubuntu. Is it possible to > have > >>>>> the XP access one of the real partitions (formatted FAT32) as though > it > >>>>> is a drive within the virtual machine itself? How? > >>>>> > >>>>> Happy 2008 in advance! > >>>>> > >>>>> Thanks and Regards, > >>>>> Edwin > >>>>> > > > _______________________________________________ > Slugnet mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.lugs.org.sg/mailman/listinfo/slugnet >
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