your 'real' PC running Linux runs your main programs including the VM software which does the virtual PC for Windows to run on for the rest
Is that with VMWare Player or VMWare Server?
I saw a diagram of Server which I now can't seem to find, which definitely looked like this:
[ os on vm ] [ os on vm ]
[ vmware ]
[ os on real machine ]
not like this, which is how I understand Player to work:
[ os on vm ]
[ vmware ] [other stuff ]
[ os on real machine ]
But maybe that first diagram was just one possible way to run Server, and really you can have other apps on the host OS too, as with Player?
Player can't create the virtual machines, only run them. Server can create them so that's why I was looking at that, and the model shown in the first diagram is what my earlier comments were based on.
I've also seen some allusion somewhere to having to "network" the virtual machines on Server if they were to talk to each other - whatever they meant by that in a virtual world. At any rate, VMWAre are at pains to stress that the virtual machines on Server are completely separate. Hence my caution about the ability to share data.
Of course it's entirely possible that I'm just misunderstanding stuff still. Steep learning curve going on here :-)
having a FAT32 partition that both Linux and Windows can read and write to.
Well, I plan to have one whole actual physical hard drive for data and one for software. (for ease of backing up data and replacing that one later with a bigger one if I need to.) So ideally both OSs would be able to see and access that entire hd.
Thanks for all this info!
Would be good to see you at Easter, yes. Will take that to email.
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Date: 2007-03-20 11:45 pm (UTC)Is that with VMWare Player or VMWare Server?
I saw a diagram of Server which I now can't seem to find, which definitely looked like this:
not like this, which is how I understand Player to work:
But maybe that first diagram was just one possible way to run Server, and really you can have other apps on the host OS too, as with Player?
Player can't create the virtual machines, only run them. Server can create them so that's why I was looking at that, and the model shown in the first diagram is what my earlier comments were based on.
I've also seen some allusion somewhere to having to "network" the virtual machines on Server if they were to talk to each other - whatever they meant by that in a virtual world. At any rate, VMWAre are at pains to stress that the virtual machines on Server are completely separate. Hence my caution about the ability to share data.
Of course it's entirely possible that I'm just misunderstanding stuff still. Steep learning curve going on here :-)
having a FAT32 partition that both Linux and Windows can read and write to.
Well, I plan to have one whole actual physical hard drive for data and one for software. (for ease of backing up data and replacing that one later with a bigger one if I need to.) So ideally both OSs would be able to see and access that entire hd.
Thanks for all this info!
Would be good to see you at Easter, yes. Will take that to email.