? To share with other machines or just for the DSL VM? See it as any other machine, if it were a physical machine then save it to a directory you can share, then access it from other machines just as you would any other network share..
I have Windows installed on my C drive, which is also what I am running DSL VMWare on. Once in DSL via VMWare, do I need to mount the C drive in order to save files, downloads etc onto? If not, where do I put things like saved web pages? If so, how do I mount it?
Don't think that is possible, best thing to do is:
a) install VMware tools on DSL so you can drag and drop files backwards and forwards (difficult)
b) set up a virtual networking card and a windows share on your computer and move stuff over the "network" using that
It's entirely possible to mount a live HDD in VMWare - but it's not advisable to mount the boot drive of the host OS...
When you create a virtual machine in VMWare, you usually create a virtual disk image... you can mount this in DSL - but you'll need a file system on it first, as DSL doesn't create one by default (it's a live cd!!).
1) partition virtual disk (/dev/sda - as VMWare runs a virtual SCSI controller by default)
2) make filesystem (format)
3) mount filesystem
DSL *should* recognise the virtual ethernet adaptor so that you can move "stuff over the network" - *but* you'd need a samba client (or ftp, or whatever) to copy the data to a windows box.
You're probably better off trying a bigger distro on your VM. I find DSL useful for fixing broken boxes and running off ridiculously poor spec machines; but it is genuinely a very limited operating system when it's on the live cd.
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