Vista - 07 MS Virtual PC-Installing on a mapped drive for multiple PC acce

Is it possible to install VPC on a mapped network drive and then go to
another PC and have it access that same VPC? With that being said, what I am
looking at is having multiple PC's having access to a VPC drive and also have
those PC's be looking at the LPT port where the original install occured.

>Is it possible to install VPC on a mapped network drive and then go toNo, but you can install VPC on each PC and have VM's configured to use
a VHD on a network drive. (only 1 person can use it at a time though)
The LPT port is going to be a problem to have it accessed directly,
there's no facility to do that with VPC, but if it's a printer, you
can just share the printer on the "host" and allow the VM to print to
that shared printer.

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Bob Comer





On Fri, 17 Oct 2008 06:56:02 -0700, KenB
<KenB@xxxxxx> wrote:

Thanks for the info. What I am dealing with is an old program in which
access to the program is dependent on a key being plugged into the LPT port.
Only have one of the keys. I was hoping that the VPC could be setup for
multiple PC's to access and those PC's would then look to the LPT port on the
machine where the vhd resides.

"Robert Comer" wrote:

You might want to look at something like Terminal Server or Citrix
server for that, it may fit the bill better than a virtualization
product like VPC.

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Bob Comer


On Fri, 17 Oct 2008 07:49:01 -0700, KenB
<KenB@xxxxxx> wrote:

On Fri, 17 Oct 2008 07:49:01 -0700, KenB
<KenB@xxxxxx> wrote:
You have not understood the VPC concept...
The VHD is simply a *file* on the host system that holds the data that
would ordinarily be stored on a hard disk in a PC. If you put it on
the network so that several PC:s can access that *file* does not make
it any less a file.

When the VHD is *used* in a virtual machine, that machine is created
in the PC that starts up the VPC2007 application and then the VHD file
appears to that virtual computer as the hard disk and it can boot up
from it.
The fact that it is accessible via the network on the host system does
not have any other effects than to slow down the guest since the data
access is limited by the network bandwidth.

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Bo Berglund (Sweden)