VPC images in a different drive/directory

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macbandit - 30 May 2005 13:45 GMT

Hello,
As I work as a Test Manager for a Hardware/Software company, I am using
every Windows system plus Linux and Novell.
in my home directory under Documents I have the 3 most used VPC images
and the rest are on my firewire drive. (7 images).
Is it possible to to include the images on the firwire drive in VPC
List so I can directly use them from the external drive. At the moment
I have to copy the image into Documents, use it and then delete it.
Any Help would be appreciated
Macbandit

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Tony Kavadias - 30 May 2005 14:58 GMT

You don't have to have the hard disk images (.vhdp files) in your home
directory,
although the virtual machine files (.vpc7 files) (or aliases to them) must
exist in
your Virtual PC List folder in your Home folder.

You can use the Virtual Disk Assistant to "detach" the hard disk images from
the virtual machine files, and then copy the images to where you want them
to
be. Then you can tell Virtual PC to associate your virtual machines with
the
hard drive images in their new locations (use the PC Settings command to
specify
the locations of Drives 1, 2 and 3 as you need them).

> Hello,
> As I work as a Test Manager for a Hardware/Software company, I am using
[quoted text clipped - 6 lines]
> Any Help would be appreciated
> Macbandit

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-- tonza

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Unseelie - 31 May 2005 17:53 GMT

The easiest thing to do is to keep the VMs (and their drive images)
where you want them, and then make aliases of them and place those in
the Virtual PC List folder found in ~/Documents.

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