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Zartog
Zartog

Reputation: 1926

How can I make a local drive visible to a Windows XP VMWare image?

How can I make a local drive visible to a Windows XP VMWare image?

Preferably, I'd like to make local drives available as Drive Letters within the VM Ware Image.

Upvotes: 4

Views: 25855

Answers (4)

Carlos Bruno Arruda
Carlos Bruno Arruda

Reputation: 9

vm > settings > options > shared folders > In this tab you can choose which way it will work. Even do mapping!

Upvotes: 0

ntg
ntg

Reputation: 14155

If you want to really make the drive visible (e.g to use gparted etc.), and not just copy some files:

You can create a pseudo-vmdk that will in fact be a link to an existing physical drive ( or one/more of its partitions) The command is e.g.

VBoxManage internalcommands createrawvmdk -filename mydrive.vmdk -rawdisk \\.\PhysicalDrive0

This maps the first physical drive as a whole. You have to run this as root/admin (for win7 start a cmd.exe as admin, and cd to the directory where you have vmware)

(To map partitions3,4 only: -partitions 3,4)

Then map the vmdk to a drive in the vm, and presto!

Upvotes: 0

user19302
user19302

Reputation:

If both OSs are windows:

vm > settings > options > shared folders

That way you can map a drive in the virtual machine as a folder on the host. :)

Upvotes: 10

Adam Liss
Adam Liss

Reputation: 48330

Use samba (linux host) or sharing (windows host), then map them as network drives on the virtual machine.

Upvotes: 1

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