AFAIK "mount" command requires kernel (or FUSE) support to work. That is, because the cygwin kernel lacks both FUSE *and* smbfs support, it won't work.
The cygwin kernel uses Windows kernel features in terms of filesystems (plus adds POSIX capabilities), but cygwin kernel won't allow you to use something like smbfs or ext3. It's not Linux.
Also all the symlinks will be visible only from inside cygwin, not from Windows.
Feature Requests
Oh OK, so I forget Cygwin as well. Turning this upside down in my head I wondered why it was not possible to directly access raw drives from the VM and thought that it was because the virtual hard disk is seen as a separate hardisk and thus has its own MBR. Now would it be possible by some mean to modify the MBR of the virtual hard disk so that it can see the other raw partitions?? The benefit of this would be that we could place /mnt/ramdisk on its own EXT3 partition and access it with IFS driver from XP guest and place the page file on it...
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It seems we cannot place the pagefile on a network drive because when booting XP the pagefile is initiated before the network so XP cannot place the pagefile on a drive that doesn't exist at that time so it forces the use of C: as default. Now we'd need to either:
- delay the creation of pagefile after the initialization of network drives
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- start XP with no pagefile and create it via a script after login but without needing to reboot for the changes to take effect
or
- start network initialization before the initialization of pagefile (like creating network in autoexec.bat ???)
If anyone knows if this is possible to do and how please post!
- delay the creation of pagefile after the initialization of network drives
or
- start XP with no pagefile and create it via a script after login but without needing to reboot for the changes to take effect
or
- start network initialization before the initialization of pagefile (like creating network in autoexec.bat ???)
If anyone knows if this is possible to do and how please post!
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It would be great if the following features could be implemented in the next release/bug-fix:
1. Drag and Drop from any Host OS to any Guest OS
2. Differential Disks
3. User Interface update (read my suggestion "User Interface Update")
4. Simplify storing virtual machines/Virtual Hard Drives on external USB Drives (read laser's suggestion "simplify storing machines/VDI on external USB Drives)
5. para-virtualization with different OS
Thanks in Advance
1. Drag and Drop from any Host OS to any Guest OS
2. Differential Disks
3. User Interface update (read my suggestion "User Interface Update")
4. Simplify storing virtual machines/Virtual Hard Drives on external USB Drives (read laser's suggestion "simplify storing machines/VDI on external USB Drives)
5. para-virtualization with different OS
Thanks in Advance
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