Is there a way to perhaps allow the OSX host to see the whole Windows system disk as a "shared folder"? That would be an indirect to way to achieve what I am trying to do.

I primarily work with a lot of mail attachments coming in from our Microsoft Exchange Server.

This is the only reason I run a Windows virtual machine.

The only way as you describe to open a multimedia attachment with the OSX/host application, would be to save the attachment on a shared folder, and then go and double click it. If I end up doing all this, it not different than saving it on a shared folder, and instead of double clicking on the file while I am on the virtual machine desktop, to double click it when I am on the OSX desktop.

I would like to be able to avoid the whole save as, navigate to folder, save, minimize outlook, open shared folder, double click on file, to view the file. I would like to be able to do it by double clicking on the attachment.

However having used both products I think VMWare is more stable.

Nice trick the one you suggest with Outlook - can you think of any way that I could make Windows virtual machine primary disk (c:\) something like a "shared folder" to be used with OSX?

I tried to use the standard sharing mechanisms, however they do not seem to work:

- I shared c:\ through Windows/my computer

• I then switched to OSX, connected via network (smb) to the shared resource

• I then switched to VMWare/Settings/Shared folders, and I added that new OSX-resource as a shared folder

At this point VMWare freezed for something like 10", and then the whole computer freezed (not just vmware) for another 20". As soon as it became responsive I went to Windows/My computer and tried to browse the shared resources. Again everything froze up for 20-30". It does not seem to work.