Wednesday, July 8, 2009

Large Hard Drive Collider

At work I have various VMs that replicate servers.

Noob Explaination: A virtual machine (VM) is basically an emulated computer that runs on your normal, physical computer. Like when you emulate all those SNES games.

One of them lives on a USB hard drive (yes this works fine and is zippy). Anyway due to how VMware works a USB device is only mounted on one at a time.

What would happen if I mounted the USB hard drive that the VM was running on, to itself? Expecting something like the below image I googled for the answer.



What I actually got was this:


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