On 6 January 2016 at 20:14, Jon LaBadie <jonfu(a)jgcomp.com> 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.
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imalone
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