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Mac Forum / Applications / Virtual PC / June 2005Put disk back into VPC folder????????
Hi I don't know if this is going to make sense but here goes. My best working VPC container has its 'disk' external i.e. As a separate file. It happened when I was trying to compact it some time ago. The question is "is it possible to put the 'disk' back into the VPC container' and if so HOW? Cheers. Robin It's a little involved, but it can be done. 1) Shut down all your virtual machines and quit Virtual PC. DO NOT HAVE THE VIRTUAL MACHINES USE A SAVED STATE OR YOU WILL CORRUPT THE DISK IMAGES. 2) Locate the hard disk file package (.vhdp) and the virtual machine file package (.vpc7) in the Finder. 3) Rename the hard disk file package "Disk1.vhdp". 4) Show the contents of the virtual machine file package (.vpc7). 5) Move the hard disk file package into the virtual machine file package at the root directory of the package. 6) Open the file "Configuration.plist" with a text editor or Property List Editor and edit the values of the key "IDE/Drive/0/Location" as follows: a) remove the "_CFURLAliasData" key and its value (in its <data> tag) since the alias will no longer be correct when this edit has been finished. b) change the value of the key "_CFURLString" to the FULL ABSOLUTE PATH of the location of the hard disk file package "Disk1.vhdp". To get this path, you can open a Terminal session, drag the "Disk1.vhdp" package icon to Terminal and then copy the path Terminal makes for it, stripping any '\' characters from the path. Or, using the Finder, execute the "Get Info..." command on the "Disk1.vhdp" icon and copy the path from the Where field in the General panel of the Get Info window. 7) Save changes to "Configuration.plist" in your editor. 8) Restart Virtual PC and check that the virtual machine has a reference to "Disk1.vhdp" as its Drive 1 (C: drive) setting. 9) Boot the PC to check that Virtual PC is able to boot from "Disk1.vhdp". 10) When all is OK, you can close the Finder windows for both the hard disk and virtual machine file packages. The same could be done for Drive 2 or 3 hard disk file packages using the "_CFURLString" key of the "IDE/Drive/n/Location" key, where n = 1 or 2 corresponding to Drive 2 or 3 respectively. > Hi > [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > > Robin  Signature-- tonza. Core blimey. I see what you mean about involved......... I may just keep it as it is. :o) Many thanks for your response though, really appreciated. Robin > It's a little involved, but it can be done. > [quoted text clipped - 61 lines] >> >> Robin There's a much easier way, at least in Tiger. Not sure if this works with earlier versions of the Mac OS. Prep: Back up all of the files you're working with first, just to be safe. 1) Shut downwindows in your VM (not save state)... commit or discard any undo drives if you're using them. 2) Quit Virtual PC. 3) Locate the drive you want to move into the VPC document. 4) Open the Virtual PC List folder and locate the VPC document you wish to move the drive into. 5) Right click on the Virtual PC document and 'Show Package Contents' 6) Drag the drive image you want to use into the package. Do not close the package yet. 7) Launch Virtual PC 8) Open the PC settings for the VM, and click on 'Drive 1' 9) Drag the drive image (the one you dragged into the package) to the entry field for the hard drive document. 10) Click OK That should do it. I just did this myself, so I know it works. Hi Thanks for the help but it does not to appear to work under 10.3.9. I cannot drag the Disk to the Package, I can drag to the icon Store folder in the package folder but not the package folder itself. Unless I am doing something wrong of course. Robin > There's a much easier way, at least in Tiger. Not sure if this works > with earlier versions of the Mac OS. [quoted text clipped - 18 lines] > > That should do it. I just did this myself, so I know it works. If that doesn't work in 10.3.9, you'd have to resort to terminal to mv the file into the package... 'mv <path to file to be moved> <path to location to move it to>' example: >mv /Users/Admin/Desktop/test.txt /Users/Admin/Documents/Virtual\ PC\ List/DOS.vpc7 Once you do that, you would still follow steps 7 - 9 of the previous post... |
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