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  From: Andrew Hill <list@fornax.net>
  To  : Aristotle <aristotle@ihug.com.au>
  Date: Sun, 19 May 2002 19:43:28 +0930

Re: VMWare - sharing host OS files with Guest OS?

Aristotle wrote:
> I am running VMWare with Windows 2000 as the guest OS under Mandrake 8.2 
> as the host OS - and it works PERFECTLY!

Well, it works very well. I don't know about perfectly :-)

> I still have to work out how to share the host filesystem and Internet 
> connection with the guest OS - can anyone give me any pointers?

Sure. Sharing the host filesystem so it's accessible by the guest - use 
Samba. You've already got half-way there, by the sounds of it...

As for sharing internet access, how does your host access the internet? 
Do you dial in direct from the host? If so, vmware-config should allow 
you to set up NAT to share your IP address with the guest...

> I need to install graphics and sound drivers - I presume they will work 
> and then I will have a full blown secondary OS for legacy (Windows) 
> applications!

There should be a graphics driver in the VMware install disk. If you 
have a version 3 build of VMware, you can access the VMware install disk
from the Tools (?) menu.

See the VMware web site FAQ's about getting your sound running. This is 
one area that's not perfect - but it's still not bad!

Cheers,

-- 
Andrew Hill
"RAID - Don't believe the hype." -- 2001-09-22

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