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From: Igor Sysoev <is@rambler-co.ru>
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Subject: Re: Getting VMWare to interchange files with host?
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On Wed, 25 Sep 2002, Andy Sparrow wrote:

> Using VMWare 2.x port on 4.7-PRERELEASE.
>  
> How best to interchange files between the VMWare machine (running 
> Win9x) and the BSD host?
>  
> I can create/mount an MSDOS filesystem via 'vnconfig' on FreeBSD, 
> but I can't get VMWare to accept it as valid (keeps saying 'not a
> recognised disk type').
>  
> I can create a VMWare Plain Disk, but I can't seem to mount that 
> under FreeBSD...

Your Plain Disk should contain two parts. Here is example:

DRIVETYPE      ide
CYLINDERS   1041
HEADS         16
SECTORS       63
ACCESS "/home/vmware/nt4.mbr" 0 63
ACCESS "/home/vmware/nt41.dat" 63 1049328

First, nt4.mbr contains partition table.
Second, nt41.dat is partition that can be mounted under FreeBSD.

> Networking (bridged mode via 'vmnet1') works fine, but I can't ping 
> the BSD host from the guest OS, or vice-versa, so I can't use (e.g.)
> Samba to share files from the BSD host to the Win guest.

Strange, I'm using bridged mode on 4.2 and host-only on 4.3 without problems.


Igor Sysoev
http://sysoev.ru


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