Restricting Shared Drives under Windows Virtual PC

re: Restricting Shared Drives under Windows Virtual PC

Johnb175 — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 22:57:06 GMT

We are trying to lock down our Windows XP Mode virtual machine. How can you hide the toolbar when the machine is launched that allows the end user (non-admin) to make changes. I know in Virtual PC 2007, under display you can hide the menu bar and status bar and then prevent non-admins from making changes (http://blogs.msdn.com/virtual_pc_guy/archive/2006/05/22/602866.aspx) per your instructions. I cannot for the life of me figure out how to do this in Windows Virtual PC. I want the end user to boot the guest OS and have no interaction with the host machine.

re: Restricting Shared Drives under Windows Virtual PC

Jim — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 06:41:24 GMT

There's one part I don't understand. With traditional RDP (using mstsc), I can copy-n-paste files between local and remote. But with Virtual PC, I can't copy-n-paste files between host and VM if I don't have my system drive shared.

Is it a reason for this restriction?

re: Restricting Shared Drives under Windows Virtual PC

JJ — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 08:22:50 GMT

I have a hard time seeing how Microsoft could have released Windows Virtual PC at all. The product does not even rate Beta quality. the integration features are totally broken. On four or five separate guests I have been unable to get any integration features to work at all. The help doesn't actually match the product. Mapping USB drives blue screens the guest. It fails to understand the difference between credentials on the guest and credentials on the host (no, the domain admin account from the host won't work on a non-domain joined guest). Video performance is about 1/4 of that in VPC 2007. Other than hitting the arbitrary holiday season cut-off, what exactly was the shipping criteria for this product?

re: Restricting Shared Drives under Windows Virtual PC

Funky — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 11:22:50 GMT

I have same problem can't see host drives? I have checked c:\ in settings on my virtual pc but when I restart it does not see my host drive very strange?

re: Restricting Shared Drives under Windows Virtual PC

Roger — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 18:59:42 GMT

In my case I'm not seeing the host drives. I just see System Folder type. Does anybody know?

re: Restricting Shared Drives under Windows Virtual PC

Samuel Figueroa — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 19:55:23 GMT

I found out how to do the above using Tools/"Map Network Drive" in Windows Explorer on Windows XP. What I haven't figured out how to do is how to access the files in Windows XP from Windows 7.

re: Restricting Shared Drives under Windows Virtual PC

Samuel Figueroa — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 00:06:38 GMT

The method described here allows copying files between the Windows 7 and Windows XP, but how do you access Windows 7 files from a Windows XP command prompt?

re: Restricting Shared Drives under Windows Virtual PC

Michel — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:47:39 GMT

Too bad the JOIN.EXE command no more exist. That would have allow an access to a drive as a directory of virtual machine.

re: Restricting Shared Drives under Windows Virtual PC

Yuwen — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 15:10:43 GMT

I knew it is off this topic. But I need help. I upgraded to Windows 7 from Vista, however, I can not see VP from the program and features, when I installing VP 2007, it says that it is not compatible with Vindodws 7, I have been looking for a solution for some time. I would like to install Windows 2008 server on my laptop, which is upgraded to windows 7, I would like to use VPC or Virtual server, please let me know what I can to do. I signed up for micrisoft WebSpark program, I would like to develop asp.net, sharepoint service on virtual machines,

Thanks in advance!

re: Restricting Shared Drives under Windows Virtual PC

Benjamin Armstrong — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 10:47:58 GMT

powershell / not a slacker -

Yup, I agree that it would be great to have drag-and-drop back as well as the ability to share just a folder.

The reason why these changes have happened is because we have moved to using the Remote Desktop code for virtual machine integration - which was not at completely at parity with the old Virtual PC functionality.

That said - the old folder sharing code had a lot of reliability / functionality issues - and I have found the Remote Desktop disk sharing to be a lot more reliable.

Cheers,

Ben