> I'm slightly confused. You're saying that you can't mount windows > shares in > VM, but that if you mount them through Linux the VM can see them? > EWWWWWWWWWWWWW! That really sucks. VMWare doesn't have such > limitations. The > Windows VMWare clients work fine for sharing files and mapping network > driver. I've even had both NT and Windows 2000 domain controllers > as well as > Citrix terminal servers working under VMWare. VMWare is an excellent > testbed. (Undoable disks are quite useful.) > > As far as partitioning goes, you get a few options with VMWare. > > A virtual disk is a file on the host file system that appears as > a physical > disk drive to a guest operating system. The file system can be on the host > machine or on a remote computer. When you configure a virtual > machine with a > In the end: > If you need development/test enviorment or support for something besides > Win9x you're stuck with VMWare Workstation. If you just need 9x and fully > functional networking, you'll be ok with VMWare Express. If your resources > are limited, sounds like Win4Lin is your best bet. (Though it might have a > few network quirks.) I'm thinking that I might just nix the whole vmware idea. I'm running win2k, and I still want to be able to play games. I'm certainly not going to go throught $300 and a bunch of hassle for less options. I guess I'll just stick with win2k and cgywin on this machine and keep my other laptop for debian. ~j