vmware-- upgrade show stopper 7.3 --> FC

[Paul Howarth]

Mark Neidorff wrote:
> It is long, long past time for me to upgrade my RH 7.3 system to FC.
> 
> Currently, I'm running kernel 2.4.20-13.7 and an unofficially patched
> version of vmware workstation 3.2.0.  The unofficial patching was needed 
> to make vmware work with that kernel version.  It does, but not perfectly. 
> Things that don't work: floppy drive, writing to a CD burner.  Things that 
> barely work: printing.  Now I need to get some files out of vmware so that 
> I can migrate to FC, but the files are locked away in vmware's "disk".  
> Does anyone have a way of getting these files out of vmware so that I can 
> back them up and upgrade?  Before you ask, I have checked the vmware site 
> and tried googling for an answer.  No help.  Oh yeah, I really don't want 
> to upgrade vmware.  I want to try another solution with FC.

Set up a samba server on your host machine, connect to it from VMware and copy 
the files you need to save to the samba share.

Paul.