From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Oct 10 10:27: 0 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx01-a.netapp.com (mx01-a.netapp.com [198.95.226.53]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 88ABA37B407 for ; Wed, 10 Oct 2001 10:26:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from frejya.corp.netapp.com (mh01 [10.10.20.91]) by mx01-a.netapp.com (8.11.1/8.11.1/NTAP-1.2) with ESMTP id f9AHQo612297; Wed, 10 Oct 2001 10:26:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from eclipse-fe.eng.netapp.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by frejya.corp.netapp.com (8.11.1/8.11.1/NTAP-1.2) with ESMTP id f9AHQOx06370; Wed, 10 Oct 2001 10:26:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from boshea@localhost) by eclipse-fe.eng.netapp.com (8.8.8+Sun/8.8.8) id KAA29053; Wed, 10 Oct 2001 10:26:24 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2001 10:26:23 -0700 From: "brian o'shea" To: Fergus Cameron Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: reading files from win Message-ID: <20011010102623.D27344@netapp.com> References: <000c01c14b11$f07c74e0$1198e693@kolej.vslib.cz> <20011009085945.C27344@netapp.com> <20011010151846.C1834@dedog.argus-systems.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii User-Agent: Mutt/0.96.3i In-Reply-To: <20011010151846.C1834@dedog.argus-systems.co.uk>; from Fergus Cameron on Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 03:18:46PM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 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