My (Windows XP Pro SP2) host has drives partitioned into letters C through H -- some partitions are backed up, some are disposable, etc.
What is the best way, or what are some ways, to see the same volumes with the same letters in my Windows XP guest?
VMware "Share Folders" seems to come close but not quite: In the Virtual Machine Settings, I can defined folder names "HostE", "HostF", etc. associated with E:\, F:\, etc. But in the guest, every attempt to map drive letters fails to map at the folder level, and instead maps at the (single) share level, so that guest E:\ looks like a volume containing top-level folders HostE\, HostF\, etc. That's not what I want. I want guest E: mapped to HostE\'s contents, and guest F: mapped to what HostF\ contains, etc.
In the guest Network Places, I can see that VMware Shared Folders really contains only a single share, called "
.host", and that apparently is all I can map to. Is there some way to get VMware Shared Folders to expose multiple mappable shares?
The only alternative I am aware of right now is to use Windows Networking (Workgroup) shares, just as I now do between other machines on the house LAN. Isn't that slower? Are there other penalties of funnelling all my drive I/O through emulated network adaptors, or is the cost so relatively minor?
