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Re: VMWare VMWare hints and suggestions



On Tue, Feb 22, 2000 at 09:14:16AM +0200, Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a Frodo wrote:
> AS>> First of all, try using Wine. A lot less trouble.
> 
> Can Wine really run Access or PowerPoint 2000 for me? Now? 

I don't have these to check, try and tell... It did run PowerPoint '97
for me. Never been very stable of course. And I really don't know
about Hebrew :(
 
> AS>> actually ran fdisk from within a DOS box on Windows '95 inside VMWare
> AS>> (when you're running full-screen it's easy to forget that you're
> AS>> emulated), and wrote the wrong partition number, erasing Linux's swap
> AS>> partition while some Linux programs were running... Linux went havoc
> 
> Huh... That seems weird. How VMW had it to access real disk (not
> virtualized part of it) at all? Seems to be some bug...

Since VMWare has to emulate actual hardware, it has to emulate actual
disk, with partition table and all. At the time you had to give it
access to the whole of /dev/hda or whatever device, not even to a
specific partition...

I remember upgrading later to a version that let you block certain
partitions: if the guest OS tried to write or read to forbidden
partitions it would stop and a VMWare dialog box would pop up in the
"real world" asking you if you want to turn off the virtual computer.

Maybe the new versions can now support a regular file that's formatted
like a disk, loopback-style. Worths checking. Might slow things down
though. Talking fdisk into working on a regular file might be a
problem too, although I guess you could always run a DOS diskette or a
Linux rescue diskette from VMWare and run fdisk there.
 
> -- 
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> Stanislav Malyshev	/\  Stronger than Morgul-spells
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	- Adi Stav

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