In order for this all to work you must have a VM which is rich enough to have "mkfs" which has the "-t vfat" option to make a windows vat32 partition. +Given that you have such a second disk created. The trick now is to use +a combination of gemu-img and mtools to build a disk you can mount from +within the VM and based on it's contents, run the job or simply bring up +the VM for inspection. + +Qemu-img can be downloaded from "http://www.qemu.org/download.html". + +Mtools can be downloaded from "http://www.gnu.org/software/mtools/download.html". + +Once you have a VmWare raw disk you can use mtools on it to add things to the disk or pull things from it. However note that every use of the disk makes it larger so you should retain a pristine copy of the original empty disk. + +Mtools requires an rc file to define drives. A sample is here: + +drive n: file="/home/bt/SOAR/sources/sscc_cbf/v1/code/DSLstata-0.raw" offset=32256 mtools_skip_check=1 + +One places such information into a file which you point to +with the environment variable "MTOOLSRC". Below is a suitable script for mounting a second disk at the right run level and deciding if a job should be run or the VM simply brought up for
