Pretty much.
The windows "disk" is actually a set of files in the Windows filesystem. VMWare makes Windows think it's a disk.
Ahh, so. Clarifying, did you just write that Windows, on install, perceives VMWare to be "a disk" as in, a drive? That the WXP install/setup is performed within the VMWare "machine"?
If that's so, then how is it that you interchange/exchange/replace the WXP installs...just by removing one VMWare "machine" and installing another and then installing WXP on that in kind?
Which then never interacts with the OS of Linux?
If I have that right, then what protective measures do you employ for the OS/Linux? Anything special, like AV and firewall and antispyware programs and all as I now do with WXP as OS?
I'm trying to figure out the usability (certainly not complaining, just trying to figure it...). Thanks for your pointers.
Oh, as to Norton/Symantec AV, my AV and Internet Security was already updated by Symantec and very late last night. I ran manual update after finding no auto updates today after reading this warning thread/issue here, and finding none, ran manually and I'm still current.
So, they must of countered the threat late yesterday with the last update offering I received.