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What is the preferred way to access physical drives from VMware virtual machines?
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Mar 15, 202611127 viewsConfidence Score0%
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I have several virtual machines running Windows XP using VMware (v.6) which I use to install and use applications I don't want on the main host OS (WinXP). I need to access data on the physical drives on the host OS from the virtual machine. I have tried using these "Edit virtual machine settings":…
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I believe that when you configure "use a physical disk", it assumes the VM has exclusive use of that disk—which it doesn't if the host system is also using it. This can lead to corruption, as both "machines" can have different views about what is re…
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