[Chester LUG] VMware question

[George]

Tim White wrote:
> Where does the guest OS (Windows) actually physically live? Do I need to allow 
> space in my / partition for it? If I do that, doesn't it mean that if I 
> install a different host OS (Linux distro) then I would also wipe the guest 
> OS? So could the guest OS live elsewhere, like in /home or even in its own 
> partition? All advice gratefully received!

For each Virtual Machine VMWare creates a directory and within that 
directory are image files that contain the contents of any hard disks on 
the virtual machine. By default these are stored under /home but you can 
tell VMWare to make them anywhere - or backup, copy, move etc. the 
directory after they're created.

Also, as you've mentioned you're using a laptop you may find you have 
issues with the clock going out of sync on the virtual machine because 
it thinks that the laptop is running at 2000mhz so when it downscales to 
1000mhz it only runs 1 second tick per 2 real ticks if you see. There's 
a load of stuff about this on the VMWare forums but I just found it 
easier to rebuild the kernel on the host without the scaling support.

George