DOS ain't dead

use a shared folder (Emulation)

posted by tom , Germany (West), 30.07.2021, 15:32
(edited by tom on 31.07.2021, 01:19)

> > much easier should be to use the VMWare Player as virtual machine, and
> use
> > VMSMOUNT to connect a virtual drive to a shared host directory.
>
> I could even provide ancient but small versions of VMware Player, if disk
> space or OS version is an issue:
>
> 28.2 MB - VMware-player-1.0.0-18587.exe,
> 28.8 MB - VMware-player-1.0.9-126128.exe,
> 170 MB (What a difference to the previous version!) -
> VMware-player-2.0.5-109488.exe,
> 48.7 MB - VMware-player-2.5.5-328052.exe,
> 89.9 MB - VMware-player-3.0.1-227600.exe
> (More at
> VMware
> Player und Workstation ohne Umweg herunterladen, although download
> links do no longer work. I have offline copies.)
>
> But I dunno, if VMSMOUNT works with these versions.

I have VMware Player 4.0.0 here, and VMSMOUNT certainly works.

Complete thread:

• Bridged Adapter - CLINT, 20.07.2021, 20:35 (Emulation)
  • Bridged Adapter - rr, 22.07.2021, 21:29
    • Bridged Adapter - CLINT, 24.07.2021, 18:54
      • Bridged Adapter - Ringding, 24.07.2021, 22:01
      • Bridged Adapter - rr, 24.07.2021, 22:53
        • Bridged Adapter - CLINT, 25.07.2021, 18:52
          • Bridged Adapter - tom, 25.07.2021, 19:51
            • use a shared folder - tom, 29.07.2021, 15:42
              • use a shared folder - rr, 29.07.2021, 21:39
                • use a shared folder - tom, 30.07.2021, 15:32
                  • use a shared folder - rr, 01.08.2021, 19:23
        • Bridged Adapter - rr, 29.07.2021, 21:27