Changing the default location the Virtual PC uses for virtual machines

Changing the default location the Virtual PC uses for virtual machines

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Ben Armstrong [MSFT]

13 Apr 2005 3:22 AM

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A regular question I hear is "How can I stop Virtual PC from storing all of my virtual machines in the 'My Virtual Machines' folder in 'My Documents'?". The answer is simple - but obscure. To change this you need to create a system environment variable called 'MYVIRTUALMACHINES' with a value of the path that you want Virtual PC to use for the default location for storing virtual machines.

Cheers,
Ben

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SvOlli

13 Apr 2005 8:38 AM

This proves that the one who can read has the advantage: this is also stated in the additional docs which are installed with the VPC SP1. ;)
Ed Goward

13 Apr 2005 2:47 PM

Thanks - I was wondering about that.

I'm sure the question you regularly get asked once you've answered that one is...

"Can we have a setting for that under File>Options?"
DosFreak

14 Apr 2005 12:41 AM

I usually just create a junction point instead of messing around with config settings. Much easier. :)
Fred Beiderbecke

29 Apr 2005 8:15 AM

Thank you very much. I've been wondering how to do that.