Hebrew Under crossover

[Aharon Schkolnik]

On Monday 30 March 2009, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote:
> Aharon,
>
> If you're using VMWare, I'm not sure about the fact that it doesn't
> support SCSI disks as a raw. After all, SATA disks appear to the
> system as SCSI disks and they are well supported.


From:

http://www.vmware.com/support/reference/linux/rawdevices_linux.html



Configuring Dual/Multiboot Systems 
to Run with VMware Workstation for Linux


VMware Workstation supports using raw disk partitions only on IDE drives. 
Booting guest operating systems on raw SCSI drives is experimental. However, 
if a virtual machine is configured with a virtual disk, instead of a raw disk 
partition, then its disk (file) can be stored on the Linux file system, 
regardless of whether the underlying drive(s) containing the file system are 
IDE or SCSI. 


From:

http://www.vmware.com/support/gsx3/doc/disks_dualscsi_gsx.html

Configuring Dual- or Multiple-Boot SCSI Systems to Run with VMware GSX Server 
on a Linux Host
 
Using an existing physical SCSI disk — also called a SCSI raw disk — inside a 
virtual machine is supported only if the host has a BusLogic SCSI adapter. It 
may be possible to configure a host with a different SCSI adapter so the same 
operating system can be booted both natively and inside a virtual machine, but 
this approach is not supported by VMware.

[My SCSI adapter is not BusLogic]



>
> You can do another thing: Install VMWare and a minimal XP + Office in
> a virtual machine, and then use the "shared drives" option in VMWare
> so you can access your SCSI disks.


I really didn't want to do that, but looks like I might have to install XP 
(again) under VMWare.

>
> You can also use Open Office 3.0 to edit those documents 

My experience has  been that Open Office doesn't handle mixed Hebrew/English 
documents well at all, and that even if I finally manage to create a mixed 
Hebrew/English document with Open Office, it will often get garbled when 
viewed under MS Word.

> or if you
> want, you can use an online solution like Zoho Office which currently
> does supports hebrew and english in a mix. I tested that.

Interesting, but I don't want to pay.


>
> Thanks,
> Hetz


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