Moving the My Virtual Machines directory

I'm running MS Virtual PC v5.3.582.27 on a Windows XP Pro SP3 system.
The contents of the My Virtual Machines directory has become quite large
and my C: partition has less free space than I would like. I have plenty
of room on another partition. How can I move my virtual machine files? I
would prefer NOT to move the entire My Documents directory if possible.
Thanks!

John
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John wrote:

> The contents of the My Virtual Machines directory has become quite large
> and my C: partition has less free space than I would like. I have plenty
> of room on another partition. How can I move my virtual machine files? I
> would prefer NOT to move the entire My Documents directory if possible.

Move the "My Virtual Machines" folder to a new home and set the
"MyVirtualMachines" environment variable accordingly.

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Robert Riebisch wrote:
> John wrote:
>
>> The contents of the My Virtual Machines directory has become quite large
>> and my C: partition has less free space than I would like. I have plenty
>> of room on another partition. How can I move my virtual machine files? I
>> would prefer NOT to move the entire My Documents directory if possible.
>
> Move the "My Virtual Machines" folder to a new home and set the
> "MyVirtualMachines" environment variable accordingly.

As I thought, there is more to it than just moving the folder. How do I
change the MyVirtualMachines environment variable? I don't find it in
either the options or settings menus on the Virtual PC Console. Thanks!

John
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John wrote:
> As I thought, there is more to it than just moving the folder. How do I
> change the MyVirtualMachines environment variable? I don't find it in
> either the options or settings menus on the Virtual PC Console. Thanks!

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/831506

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