One of those Zen computer moments
I’m installing a vmware guest for a particular role and I need Windows SDK installed. It’s a 1.4 gb iso file - not a problem. It’s downloaded to a local \install directory (a habit I’ve formed when installing anything that’s downloaded).
The next step, to mount the iso as a virtual cd, is very easy. The host o/s can mount any iso on the virtual cd drive of the guest o/s but first I need to copy the iso from the guest to the host drive. And my Zen moment of introspection is when I think: I’m connected to a virtual machine. I’m about to open a UNC location on the real machine which is hosting this fake machine in order to copy a file I just downloaded. So I’m copying a file onto a real drive from a fake hard drive which itself actually exists as files on that real drive I’m copying to.
Since I have explorer open I point it to to the unc location of the virtual drive on the host o/s. So my guest o/s is now displaying to me, as if it was network files, the actual files inside which exists everything that is currently running on guest o/s which has allowed me to view them.
Sort of like looking at a crystal ball that contains the universe and everything in it, including the observer and the crystal ball. A PC version of an out of body experience.
Computers just keep getting cooler.
July 14th, 2008 at 6:52 pm
You shouldn’t user your computer during those peyote trips. :-)