Re: Printing under Xy4/VMware/W2K/Win 7/8

[William TeBrake tebrake@xxxxxxxx]

Lynn,

A single keystroke or mouse click is all it takes.  Cutting and pasting between host and virtual machine) and printing, scanning, and other functions are just as easy.  If you don't want your virtual machine to use the internet, that's no problem, and it means that no viruses will be able to get into the virtual machine.  I have mine configured to access the internet, but only for backing up all files to the cloud.  I do have antivirus software on my virtual machine and the firewall is in activated.  In nearly two years' of use, I have never had any intrusion of viruses or malware intrude into that guest machine.  VMWare Player really works very well for me.

Best regards,

William TeBrake
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On 3/30/2014 4:11 PM, Lynn Brenner wrote:

On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 10:00 PM, William TeBrake mailto:tebrake@xxxxxxxx wrote:

 I agree with you that for most people VMWare Player (the free version) is better than VirtualBox for most people simply because it integrates with the host system so well for all drives, scanner, printer, internet, screen, etc., and cutting a pasting seems less cumbersome than having to set up network drives.

How easy and quickly can you move between the host OS and the guest OS?

Ideally, you'd go back and forth almost as if it were one computer - but can one do that and still keep the guest OS from online exposure? Or do you have to go through extra steps every time you go from one to the other to protect the guest from catching malware, viruses, etc?

Lynn