Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2001 10:26:23 -0700 From: "brian o'shea" <boshea@netapp.com> To: Fergus Cameron <cameron@argus-systems.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: reading files from win Message-ID: <20011010102623.D27344@netapp.com> In-Reply-To: <20011010151846.C1834@dedog.argus-systems.co.uk>; from Fergus Cameron on Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 03:18:46PM %2B0100 References: <000c01c14b11$f07c74e0$1198e693@kolej.vslib.cz> <20011009085945.C27344@netapp.com> <20011010151846.C1834@dedog.argus-systems.co.uk>
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On Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 03:18:46PM +0100, Fergus Cameron wrote: > > > > None that I have heard of. If it's really important that you access > > the filesystem from Windows and you have a lot of CPU and memory to > > spare, you could run VMware [1] on Windows with FreeBSD running in a > > virtual machine. It's kind of a round-about way to do it, but it > > would probably work. > > don't think so, you still won't be able to read the BSD file system as > vmware does not host this in native (NTFS/FAT/FAT32 . . .) file system > as far as i am aware. it uses a single large file to emulate (much > like loopback image) or a disk partition (same a multi-boot). VMware can use a physical disk or a large file as a virtual disk. -brian -- Brian O'Shea (408) 822-3249 <boshea@netapp.com> 3.3.163(Pen) "Stare not too deeply into the Pen, lest the Pen stare back into you." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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