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Try asking for someone to do the job via liveperson.com They have all these professionals that will do jobs or assignments for a price. I've had C programming done through some people on there for a good price and they know what they are doing.

 

couldn't you just use a hard drive/flash drive to transfer the file onto, and then back into the virtual machine?

Or use a cloud storage like drop box to upload and then download it again.

do I win?

 

My first thought is...USB? :grin:

http://www.vmware.com/support/ws45/doc/devices_usb_ws.html

 

Couple of things you can try.

1. Drag and drop?

2. You mentioned scp.
You will need
- the IP address of the VM host.
In a terminal on the linux machine, type
$ ifconfig -a
The entry next to eth0 will give you the IP address.

- sshd running on one of the machines. I will assume you run
it on the linux machine.

- scp application on the windows box. (cygwin? or google for one).

Then on the windows box, you do the scp.

eg
$ scp thefile.txt usernameassword@192.168.1.100:

That should work.

The file will land on the username's home directory.

I hope I understood the problem

No charge. If it works, send the money to the local red cross

 

I am barely sure if I know what language all these posts are written in. Hardly understood a word! Good luck HP.

 

Same here. I'll just pretend that they're all anti-Lin sentiments. McBrilliant is not utilizing him correctly.

 

You can ssh into the Ubuntu machine. Find the ip address of your Ubuntu machine using ifconfig and simply use winscp. With winscp you can just log in to the Ubuntu machine from windows and drag and drop files.

 

Email it to yourself.

This should not be so hard. This is a ridiculously easy task using Parallels to run Windows on a MAC. Why is this so hard using VMWare Linux?

 

Try smacking it, flipping it, then rubbing it down.

 

Just create a file share on the W7 machine, mount it in Linux, then copy it to where you want.

 

Is vmwaretools installed on the linux image? If so, you can just use shared folders. The share folder ends up mounted in /mnt/hgfs/name of folder.

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If you don't want to go that route, just download filezilla on your windows machine and sftp/ftp it on to the VM.

 

Shared folders is the answer.

 

There going to be a CF playoffs group suite thingy? Damn. Maybe I could wear a disguise. I'd be the old cat with a cane, a wig on my bald head, and a Harden beard. Yeah, that might work. Hope they have the AC turned way up. Don't know the answer to this, however, but I can afford to buy a ticket.

 

Install cygin on your windows box. Choose SSHd server for it. SSH and scp to your hearts content. Any windows box I do work on always has cygwin as a way to run linux stuff on windows. It's just handy to have for me when working in a multienvironment. http://www.cygwin.com/

edit: also a common problem with the vmware stuff is the way it handles network routing from your base machine to your vm. I think the 2 choices are NAT or bridge. If you want your VM to be on the same subnet as your host machine, i think you have to choose bridged network. That way there's no complications in network routing when trying to ssh to your vm. This is what happens to me when I get a brain fart and can't access my vm on my local subnet. Just a helpful tip, so my apologies if this is known to you already.

 

ftp that ho

 

Yeah I'm more interested in this as well. Planning for this should start ASAP so that tickets can be purchased as soon as they go on sale.