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Originally Posted by Mussels
VMware "unity" mode is awesome and made this work so much better. the VM applications appear as if they were ran in the host OS - but only with access to the VM's filesystem.
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I liked it too but I found that it was a little finicky last time I used it. Granted that was back on Workstation v7, I haven't tried it in v8.
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Originally Posted by Mussels
so more or less, what i've done is got an OS that looks completely normal when using it, but with the ability to instantly pause/stop all non gaming processes and applications.
it also means my web browsers and download programs are isolated from the host OS (disabled the internal network, it has its own USB wifi adaptor) so that its also a very effective antivirus defense
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+1: I agree, it does add a nice level of isolation from the host OS. The best anti-virus IMHO is smart web browsing and being careful though.
Have you set it all up? I'm curious how it ends up working out for you.