Re: [SLUG] Win4Lin vs VMWare

[John Ferlito <johnf@nospam.inodes.org>]

On Mon, Jun 05, 2000 at 07:37:01PM +1000, Anthony Rumble wrote:
> On Sun, 4 Jun 2000, Del wrote:
> 
> > The two programs also take a different approach to sharing files.  VMware
> > has a virtual disk for each VM, which appears as a single monolithic
> > file on Linux, and is limited to 2GB.  To share files between a VM
> > running NT and the host Linux system, you need to set Linux up as a
> > SAMBA server and share these files using the SMB (networking) protocol.
> > Win4Lin uses a directory ($HOME/win) in each user's home directory to
> > represent the Windows C: drive, and files in that area area are shared
> > between Linux and Windows.  The Win4Lin documentation does state, however,
> > that these files should not be used by Linux while Win4Lin is running,
> > because of the buffering algorithms used (and presumably, Win4Lin does
> > no file locking).
> 
> I just need a beefy laptop, and some monitors/keyboard/mice for the thin
> client terminals. (And a hub'n'stuff).
> 
	I can bring my laptop and a hub. Perphaps some other people could bring there laptops along as well, a few people usually do anyway.


John

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