Quote Originally Posted by utu View Post
@ Capricorny

Please confirm I have this right.
Your Virtual Hard Drives are ntfs and not linux formatted?
Are you using M$ MMC to set these up?
Also is your Windows a Win7 Home Premium or something grander?
Thanks.
As I wrote: The entities residing on NTFS are files. Nothing else, nothing special. So I do nothing at all about them with Windows tools. In fact, I think I haven't booted Windoze for 6+ months. I have it installed because I _may_ need it, not because I use it For running Windows, I use VMware. Run off the cloop-mounted KNOPPIX file on NTFS, but the virtual machines reside on an ext3 (will probably turn to ext4 soon) partition.
My version: It's a Home Premium, but I don't think that matters.

But inside some of those NTFS files are Linux file systems - I mostly use ext2/ext3, but that doesn't matter much. And they are loop- or cloop-mounted.
As for VM technology, I have been using VMware workstation for 11 years - and I try to know as little as possible about it, and the alternatives, as long as it just works, and it mostly does. So I don't know about M$ MMC etc, which I think is much newer stuff than VMware.

I can see that it could be somewhat practical to test new Knoppix versions in a VM, but I normally copy new remasterings to USB media in any case, and then I can test run from them.