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    Fedora and Guest OS Q's

    Discussion in 'Linux Compatibility and Software' started by MrWacko, Oct 16, 2006.

  1. MrWacko

    MrWacko Notebook Guru

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    I've got Fedora Core 4 running inside a VMware VM, and I'm wondering how to get it to detect some of my system components (so I can use wireless, or USB drives). Comp listed below.

    Also, how would I get the two OS's to talk to each other, and perhaps use some common HD space? Is such a thing even possible?

    Thanks for any help.
     
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  2. jeffsmythe

    jeffsmythe Notebook Geek

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    I do the same thing, though I use Gentoo as my guest OS. I set things up so that VMware NATs the virtual NIC in the Guest OS, and things work well enough. It can be a pain in the a&& to ssh into it from a remote machine, but there are ways around that.

    Keep in mind that the guest OS appears to be another computer running somewhere on the network, it's not, from a networking perspective, the same computer. It has its own (virtual) network interfaces etc.

    As for sharing space, since linux doesn't do NTFS well at the moment, and windows doesn't do ext2/etx3/jfs/resierfs et., I find samba a good way to go. Run samba on the guest OS and then it looks like another windows box from "My network places".
     
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