[AccessD] windows vm

...the xp version allows sharing of folders between guest and host
...afaik the Win7 version allows actual HD sharing

William

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From: "jwcolby" <jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com>
Sent: Saturday, August 01, 2009 7:06 PM
To: "Access Developers discussion and problem solving" 
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Subject: [AccessD] windows vm

> Does anyone know if the Windows VM stuff allows the vm to access disk 
> drives on the host machine?
>
> I use Windows Home Server, which runs over the top of Windows 2003.  I 
> have been using it
> successfully for well over a year, however it seems I overclocked my cpu 
> some time back and managed
> to damage the OS - it started rebooting on me.  By the time I discovered 
> the problem I had to do a
> reinstall.
>
> I run MyMovies which is a third party add-in for Windows Media Center.  It 
> uses a SQL Server 2005
> express database (very small, about 10 mbytes), which I had running on the 
> WHS server.  Now of
> course I have to rebuild that as well as other software I had installed 
> for the purpose of ripping
> my dvds to hard disk etc.
>
> Since I have to reinstall, it occurred to me that if I placed that in a VM 
> (and it will run in a vm)
> then I can place the vm out in another drive and if the time ever comes to 
> move the database, it
> will be in a vm and be easily portable.
>
> I tried to use VMWare.  While it does allow me to map a physical drive to 
> the vm and see it from
> inside the vm, for some reason it does not see all of the directories of 
> the host's drive and even
> those that it can see it cannot manipulate correctly.  Maaaaaybe it has to 
> do with the drive being
> 1.5 gb, not sure.  At any rate, the software running in the vm needs to be 
> able to read (rip) dvds
> and store them on a physical drive on the host machine.
>
> I am trying to get Microsoft's VM stuff set up but I know nothing about it 
> and before I get too
> deeply into this and discover it does not do this, I thought I'd ask.
>
> So, can the VM see, read and write to a host drive or partition, which is 
> still visible to the host,
> i.e. either writing to the disk will not cause corruption.  In fact the 
> Windows Media Center does
> not write to the movies stuff but it does write to music files IIRC and so 
> I do not want any chance
> of corrupting stuff.
>
> Anyone?
>
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