Re: For anybody with Norton Auntie Virus 2004 and Office 2003

From: Peter Hewett (nospam_at_xtra.co.nz)
Date: 09/02/04 

Date: Fri, 03 Sep 2004 04:09:04 +1200

Hi Howard

Not quite sure about the question. When you boot a VMWare system you treat them as
physical systems each with it's own set of drives. Since you tend to create new VM's for
new clients/projects you generally end up with only a few drives per machine. You can of
course share a "real" drive. Just give it a Share and map it within the VMWare machine.

I have 4 different Virtual Machines each running Outlook (2 Office XP and 2 Office 2003).
They all share the same Outlook pst file (but not at the same time of course) through a
mapped drive.

My bootable system in nothing more than the OS/Patches/Drivers/Virus Scanner and VMWare.
Everything else goes into a VM. It makes for great flexibility being able to mix
OS/Office/VS.Net in various admixtures as I require. Also, if I have a system failure I
can load one of the VMs (from backup or pull the physical drive) onto another box and be
back in business in minimal time.

I recently had a motherboard fail and lost more than 8 days in downtime. I'd been
intending to use VMWare for some time and this precipitated my adoption. My current
hardware is emergency replacement until I get the my new system built. But when the new
hardware arrives I just load OS/Patches/Drivers/Virus Scanner and VMWare copy across the
VM machines and I up and running.

Peter

"Howard Kaikow" <kaikow@standards.com>, said:

>If I have 10 logical drives, does VMWare involve copying all 10 drives?

HTH + Cheers - Peter
 

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