Vista - SLED 10 Under VPC 2007 under XP Pro - 2nd Post

Has anyone experimented with the subject combination?Steve's kind reply is below, but he hasn't done it either!Bob

I haven't, but you could only access your host hard drive via a SAMBA
network share. There are no Shared Folders options for Linux.
Same goes with a flash drive. THere is no USB support in VPC, so
you'd have to share out your flash drive via standard Windows
networking and access it that way.

On Fri, 11 Jul 2008 16:17:54 -0500, "Bob Palank" <bob@xxxxxx>
wrote:
What are you looking for if it works at all? Regardless of the OS,
what I posted holds true, no direct USB access. VPC's shared folders
are only via the VM Additions for Windows.

For information on what works in VPC:
http://vpc.visualwin.com
There are quite a few SuSe Linux entries.

If you have SLED10, why not just try and install it?

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Cheers,
Steve Jain, Virtual Machine MVP
http://vpc.essjae.com/
I do not work for Microsoft.

I already have SLED10 installed and operating under VP 2007 and it runs as
expected.
But no intenet access, no USB drive access, and no XP NTFS HD access.
As I understand, installation of SAMBA should allow SUSE to R/W to the last
two ?
If you haven't done it, and I haven't done it,
I wonder why others haven't done it ?
Just some questions.
Bob

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On Fri, 11 Jul 2008 20:02:15 -0500, "Bob Palank" <bob@xxxxxx>
wrote:
Internet access from the guest is only possible if the NIC in the
guest can connect to the external network. This will depend on the
external network configuration. For example if you have a router that
supplies DHCP service to hand out IP addresses like the typical ADSL
home network, then it will work fine provieded that:
- You set the guest network properties in VPC2007 to use the host NIC
- Configure the guest to use DHCP to get its IP address

USB is not supported at all in VPC2007 so you will never *directly* be
able to access a USB drive from the guest no matter what kind of
operating system you use on the guest.

The *only* way to access the XP host drives (including any USB drive
mounted on the host) is to share those drives on the network from the
host and then connect to them from the guest via the network,
precisely in the same way you would do this if the guest was installed
on a different PC hardware on the network. This I believe includes
installing and configuring SAMBA on the guest.
Exactly, SAMBA gives access to any Windows shared drive on the network
provided it is correctly configred.

So SAMBA supplies the virtual network functionality? It certainly wouldn't
be a physical network in my case since there is only one laptop and one
processor. So SAMBA must talk to the VPC which uses XP to provide HD data
back to the VPC and then back to SLED ? And all this needs to happen on one
laptop.

With respect to wireless internet connectivity, I might be working in a
library or an airport or Starbucks. I suspect that I could have two web
browsers active - IE in XP and another in SLED and toggle from one to the
other via the right alt and mouse movement ?
TIA
Bob
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On Sat, 12 Jul 2008 09:30:09 -0500, "Bob Palank" <bob@xxxxxx>
wrote:
No, SAMBA allows a Linux OS to access Windows shares. You must have a
working network connection for SAMBA to work.
You will probably need to use a loop back adapter for this to work.
You need an active NIC for host-guest communication. If your NIC
isn't connected to something it's not active. Also, your VM needs to
get its TCP/IP information from somewhere. Take a look at the VPC
help for info on the loopback.

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Cheers,
Steve Jain, Virtual Machine MVP
http://vpc.essjae.com/
I do not work for Microsoft.