I have a common partition (home) that should be used as home in a virtual machine could also be used as home when I'm running native on the same machine. What's the solution? for what it's worth, I gave up on XP because XP degrades to fast and needs to be reinstalled every three to six months as well as needing to figure out how to slipstream a bunch of sata drivers. putting the data on a separate machine isn't possible because I'm almost always on the wrong side of the network and the data is frequently inaccessible. The Internet just isn't fast enough to be a disk drive yet.
