Other Help Topics :: DSL as a virtual machine?

I've just downloaded DSL but since I don't have any CD-Rs handy, I tried running it as a virtual machine under WinXP. This works fine but my problem is that I would like for it to recognize the rest of my hard drive and let me run things off it. Is there any way to do this? What about getting it to recognize my already-running internet connection?

I found out how to get it to find the hard drive, had to edit the virtual hard drive. But it still doesn't know I'm online. Ideally, I'd like to be running a 'virtual network' of sorts, where Windows knows Linux is running and Linux knows Windows is running.

If anyone can help with this, it'd be greatly appreciated.

I don't know Win XP, is there a virtual machine option in there?

Anyway, I am running VMWare and you can enable the network bridging and 2 other options. When my dsl hads Bootproto=dhcp I automaticaly get an IP from my dhcp server... Then one PC shows up with two networks and so you can easily go from one to another.

Concerning the harddisk access from a Virtual Machine, would it be wise to let dsl acces an NTFS? I advice a real Harddisk install on a /dev/hda partition. Then you can easily let them acces other devices when you ignore the warnings from VMWare...

Dunno if this helps ya...

If you are connected by cable my provider blocks it for only one MAC number per cable-madem...so setup NAT in VMware

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There is a option to use your really hard drive - I would leave the instruction but im on a different computer

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