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Re: VM software for personal use?



Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
Except... what works very nice in VMware is the NAT and Host Only network setups: works out of the box. You share your home dir thru samba. On XP all I had to setup was a netuse * to mount a net fs. Do the others do it that easy?

Yes [1]. VBox even has kernel additions which implement shared directories over a specialized interface with a virtual filesystem (vboxfs) [2].

Hugo

QEMU and Xen might not be as straightforward for a desktop end-user, but their users certainly won't find it difficult.

-thib

[1] http://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch06.html
[2] http://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch04.html#sharedfolders


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