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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers installing unix on windows? clueless here Post 302116547 by jim mcnamara on Saturday 5th of May 2007 12:06:42 PM
Old 05-05-2007
vmware allows "switching" between different operating systems, like the old guest operating systems on IBM 360.

IMO - the simplest install is to get cygwin. It is a unix that runs under Windows, uses windows dll's, lets you see all the disks, etc.
http://www.cygwin.com/mirrors.html

If you are not running a trial of vmware, (ie., you piad for vmware) you should consider a linux distribution like ubuntu, debian, or fedora core 6. Ubuntu is the most windows-like among those. Otherwise try cygwin, it does not require formatting disks. Unless you add an external USB disk or something, I do not know how you can possibly install any unix at all.

I may be wrong, but I do not know of any unix that that can natively use NTFS or FAT32 instead of ext2 or ufs, etc. (unix flavors of native filesystems).

I could be wrong because most of my time has been on big multiuser boxes.
 

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VMXNET3(9)							   Open VM Tools							VMXNET3(9)

NAME
vmxnet3 - vmware kernel module SYNOPSIS
modprobe vmxnet3 DESCRIPTION
This is a Linux kernel device driver module that drives VMware's second fast networking device. As it is backed by real (virtual) hardware, it should be automatically loaded by hotplug or udev as needed. Unlike the older 'vmxnet' hardware, the 'vmxnet3' hardware does not morph and as such the modprobe-related logic isn't necessary. SEE ALSO
vmware-checkvm(1) vmware-hgfsclient(1) vmware-toolbox(1) vmware-toolbox-cmd(1) vmware-user(1) vmware-xferlogs(1) libguestlib(3) libvmtools(3) vmware-guestd(8) vmware-hgfsmounter(8) vmware-user-suid-wrapper(8) vmblock(9) vmci(9) vmhgfs(9) vmmemctl(9) vmsock(9) vmsync(9) vmxnet(9) HOMEPAGE
More information about vmxnet3 and the Open VM Tools can be found at <http://open-vm-tools.sourceforge.net/>. AUTHOR
Open VM Tools were written by VMware, Inc. <http://www.vmware.com/>. This manual page was put together from homepage materials by Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-technologies.net>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others). 2010.03.20-243334 2010-04-08 VMXNET3(9)
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