Problem resizing partition

[gaf-mNDKBlG2WHs at public.gmane.org (Jerry Feldman)]

On 06/23/2009 04:10 PM, Richard Pieri wrote:
> On Jun 23, 2009, at 3:17 PM, Jerry Feldman wrote:
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>> Why do you prefer Cygwin or coLinux over using a virtual machine
>> (assuming a reasonably powerful computer). Certainly, Cygwin has =20
>> come a
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> It isn't a preference; it's an alternative.  I don't always need a =20
> full-blown Linux install on my gaming box.  Sometimes I just need to =20
> be able to run a shell or Python script with a Unix-like environment =20
> and I want to run it on the Windows filesystem.  With a VM (which I =20
> have, by the way: Ubuntu 9.04 on VMware Server 2) I have to boot the =20
> VM, mount the drive if it isn't already, and shut it all down again =20
> when I'm done.  That's overkill for a simple find/grep or some such.
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This is slightly off topic. Why do you use VMWare server. I found the
performance of VMWare server to be rather poor in contrast to VirtualBox.=


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