Re: How to organise disks with OSX/Windows/Linux (using Parallels)

In article <465ecc24$0$31837$db0fefd9@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Richard Taylor <rjt-usenet@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi

I am just about to switch my main desktop from Linux to OSX (shiny new Mac
Pro on order).

I intend to run both Linux and Windows XP under Parallels on the new Mac
Pro. I want to have a single 'Documents' directory that is available to all
environments, but I am not sure how best to arrange it.

Presently I can see two options:

1) 'mounting' the disk directly through Parallels as a device in the client
OS (is this possible, I have done this with vmware on Linux in the past),
but I think that this will require the client OS to support HFS+. I am not
sure of the effect of RAID on this setup either.

2) 'exporting' the disk from OS/X and 'mounting' it remotely via
CIFS/SMB/NFS etc. in the client OS. I am not sure what distributed
filestore technologies OS X supports.

I have done lots of Windows and Linux distributed filesystem setup over the
years but I don't have much experience of the same thing in OS/X. Do you
think that such a setup (all three OS accessing the same data disk, hosted
on OS/X) is likely to work OK? Are there any other options?

Parallels has an inbuilt option to share specified folders on the Mac
with the virtual machines. It works very well. No idea how they appear
in Linux, but on the Windows vm you get a shortcut on the desktop called
'Parallels shared folders' and there they are. I mapped the ones I use
the most to drive letters because I find that easier.

--
Sara

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