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I'll be as specific as possible to avoid confusion, so bear with me.

I have vmware player installed on my windows 7 machine, on partition A (100gb). The virtual machine itself is stored on partition B (900gb). The operating system on the virtual machine is Ubuntu Server, and I would like to be able to mount my physical drives partition B from within the virtual machine.

The reason for this is that I have access to the virtual machine via port forwarding from outside my private network, but I would also like to be able to access some of my documents that are on the physical drive. So my question really is this: what is the most correct way of mounting the physical drive, if there is even a way?

Thank you in advance to all that attempt to help me.

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belongs on serverfault.com – Daniel A. White Jan 24 '11 at 0:32
This is off-topic here (SO is for programming questions). You probably want the Unix and Linux SE, or Super User – Michael Mrozek Jan 24 '11 at 0:32
Access the physical machine through the network. IE, create a share on your windows box, and use mount.cifs to mount it. – Zoredache Jan 26 '11 at 1:28
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