[ILUG] VMware alternatives.

[Dale Dunlea]

> > I have access to a USB hard-drive, but for various reasons, 
> I need to 
> > keep it basically intact and it's currently a FAT file 
> system. I could 
> > probably invest in a pen drive, but I'd rather mess around with my 
> > existing equipment first.
> > 
> dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/vfat/ext3.img bs=1M count=1024
> mke2fs -j /mnt/vfat/ext3.img
> modprobe loop
> losetup /dev/loop0 /mnt/vfat/ext3.img
> mount /dev/loop0 /data
> or
> mount -o loop /mnt/vfat/ext3.img /data
> 

I wondered if there was something like that I could do. That is very
nice indeed. I believe we have a winner.

Thanks,
Dale.