From owner-freebsd-emulation Thu Sep 26 21:35:16 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0159237B406 for ; Thu, 26 Sep 2002 21:35:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from CRWdog.demon.co.uk (slip-32-101-23-234.wa.us.prserv.net [32.101.23.234]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A743743E88 for ; Thu, 26 Sep 2002 21:35:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from spadger@best.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by CRWdog.demon.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id A09C9309 for ; Wed, 25 Sep 2002 15:37:17 -0700 (PDT) X-Mailer: exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Getting VMWare to interchange files with host? Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2002 15:37:17 -0700 From: Andy Sparrow Message-Id: <20020925223717.A09C9309@CRWdog.demon.co.uk> Sender: owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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... 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. I've got a Flash Disk, but VMWare 2.x doesn't support PC card devices... Schlepping files off to a network-addressable host and copying them back to the BSD host will work - except when I'm actually mobile and wish to import on an airplane. Seems to me that the only thing I haven't tried is dedicating a partition to MS-DOS and letting VMWare access that directly. If I used host-only networking mode, would I be able to get connectivity that way? Should I use host-only mode and get the BSD host to NAT requests out onto the external network that way? Is this all correct? Am I missing something? Is there a resource anywhere with some good tips for doing this kind of thing/setting up VMWare with FreeBSD? It works very well, but I'd really like to be able to import/export files, for obvious reasons. I did the obvious searches (several times), but couldn't seem to find anything. Any help greatly appreciated. Regards, AS To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message