On 6 January 2016 at 20:14, Jon LaBadie <jonfu@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, Jan 06, 2016 at 06:23:55PM +0000, Ian Malone wrote: >> I can only see the windows in a vm helping >> in this situation if there's a neat way to give it fairly transparent >> access to a filesystem on the host machine. > > To the latter point, I run Windows 8.1 as a VirtualBox VM under F22. > The space for all my VM's is in a single LV with a ext4 filesystem. > It can be resized as needed. > > I don't know about other virtual environments, but under VBox, access > to the Linux data is simple, called shared folders. Normally I make > my F22 home dir available as a share (e: drive). This is one directory > tree on an ext4 fs in an LV. > > To try other combos today I shared /usr/local, the root of an ext4 > fs again in an LV. I also shared /tmp, a memory based tempfs. > Again, a simple "fill out a gui form of 5 items". > That sounds quite nice, I've only briefly used VirtualBox in the past, will have to give it another look. Could actually be useful for some other projects too. -- imalone http://ibmalone.blogspot.co.uk -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
