Archive for the ‘windows’ Category

sharing files from linux to windows

Monday, April 27th, 2009

Yes, one installs and configures Samba. All I need is to access a big folder in the read-only mode. The quick and dirty solution is:

(more…)

calling batch files with ‘exit’

Sunday, February 22nd, 2009

Consider ‘main.bat


call child1.bat
call child2.bat

What happens after ‘child1.bat‘ is finished?

(more…)

extending a virtual disk in vmware

Friday, December 26th, 2008

Extending a virtual disk in vmware

1. Backup!

2. Somewhere in the vmware installation directory, there is a tool named “vmware-vdiskmanager.exe“. There is a lot of options, for resize use “-x“:

vmware-vdiskmanager.exe -x 8Gb ...path.to.vm..../vm_disk.vmdk

(hint: type the command manually, do not copy/paste from web. Otherwise you can get typographical spaces or minuses instead of the usual ones.)

(more…)