VM Linux client && smbclient host OS

Hello,

I have a Windows Vista as my host OS on my laptop running VMWare
workstation with several Linux VM guests.

On one of the Linux VM, I have configured Samba and I can mount the VM
filesystem from the Vista. I would like to mount the Vista drive (D:\)
to the Linux VM. The Windows drive has lots of duplicate files which I
would like to list and delete. I find Linux well suited for this task.
How can I mount the host OS drive to the VM client?

The drive is too big to upload it to the VM and perform the search.

Thank you in advance for any help.

NJ

In comp.os.linux.misc Neil Jones <castellan2004-(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> On one of the Linux VM, I have configured Samba and I can mount the
> VM filesystem from the Vista. I would like to mount the Vista drive
> (D:\) to the Linux VM. [...]
> How can I mount the host OS drive to the VM client?

Exactly the same way that you would if neither of them was a VM. Share
the D:\ on Vista, and mount it from the Linux system. Which bit is
causing a problem?

Chris

Neil Jones wrote:

......
> How can I mount the host OS drive to the VM client?
>
mount -t cifs //winboxip/c$ /mnt/windows -o username=winadmin

> The drive is too big to upload it to the VM and perform the search.
>
How is the performance of VM guests on vista? I'd rather prefer the
other way round (Xp/vista/whatever as guests on a linux vmware host)

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