Operating Systems

[Chris]

I think the better solution in this case then would be to run VMware on windows and load linux in a virtual machine.

My biggest gripe with that is the VMWare implementation of PCMCIA. It uses it's own PCMCIA service as opposed to the Linux PCMCIA services...and since there is pretty shitty driver support...monitor mode is not an option.

It's also frustrating to try to set up the Virtual Machine (either Linux or Windows) to use a wireless card and VMWare's docs on it are the suck.

Oh yeah...almost forgot, you can't mount your existing fat/ntfs partitions from inside the VM...or if you can I haven't figured out how yet.

[Mr. Peabody]

Transversing the filesystem is very trickey, and was intended to be so by the authors of vmware for security reason. There's a 'beta' driver for linux that allows NTFS partition to be moutned in r/w mode, but not inside the VMWare partition file. I'm pretty sure you have to resort to network filesharing and bridged networking between the host & vmware layer