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High CPU usage solution for vmware on linux (files on NTFS)

April 8, 2009 admin 2 comments

If you have high cpu usage problem for your vmware application which runs on linux and the virtual machine files in NTFS partition,

you have to add:

mainMem.useNamedFile= FALSE"
to your .vmx file of you virtual machine.

this will solve the high cpu usage of mount.ntfs-3g.

November 5, 2008 admin No comments

First of all you need to share some directories on the windows machine then you can use,

example info:

WinMachine = 10.1.1.10
user=test
pass=test
windows share name= sharefolder

mkdir /mnt/winshare

mount -o username=<username>,password=<password> //<windows-machine>/<share name> /mnt/<mount point on the linux machine>

-> with example info

mount -o username=test,password=test //10.1.10.10/sharefolder /mnt/winshare

this also works, (accessing full disk)

mount -o username=test,password=test //10.1.10.10/c$ /mnt/winshare

hope this helps to connect your linux pc to windows machine.