The Jagular

In pursuit of my Lotusphere resolutions, I've been trying out VMWare (VMWare Server) on my laptop as a means of testing Notes 7 without affecting my current development environment. I have no revelations, but I have noticed several things. I couldn't find an obvious way to copy a file into my VMWare guest OS other than to put it on a CD. The VMWare forums seemed to suggest that newer/more advanced versions of VMWare would make this possible. I suppose I can't complain too much. VMWare is free after all. The other thing I noticed is that after shutting down VMWare, there is sometimes a 512 Meg process (named something like VMWare.exe) hanging around. I don't know if that's due to my not knowing how to properly close VMWare or if it's some sort of bug. Not a huge problem as the Task Manager can kill that process without complications.

Next step, try a Notes 7 server installation on a server with spare cycles.

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1. Jens03/02/2007 08:15:15 PM
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VMWare Server is not capable of direclty interact with the host system, so your solution isn't that far away. Instead of using a CD/Stick you could define a fileshare on one of the logical systems, the host or the client and then copy things forth and back through the networking functionality. The functionality you are mentioning, direct access from the client to defined portions of the host filesystem is available for example in the VMWare Workstation, which obviously is not for free (but it is definately worth the investment).

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