Re: Virtual PC HD and and New WinXP User Profile

rcoltrane wrote:
> I've installed Virtual PC 2004 with my current user profile (admin) in
> Windows XP Professional and after that, I've installed Windows 98 in a
> Virtual HD I created. But now I have created a new user profile (rcs) in XP
> with administration rights and I need to make Virtual PC to 'see' my Win98
> virtual Harddisk that I created through my old user profile because, when I
> open Virtual PC with this new profile, it doesn't show my Win98 HD. How can I
> do that??

The default location for Virtual Machines is

My Documents\My Virtual Machines.

Store them some place else, like

C:\My Virtual Machines

so everybody can see them.

See

http://blogs.msdn.com/virtual_pc_guy...13/407796.aspx

for how to change the default location.

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Visual C++ MVP

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Bob Comer


On Mon, 27 Jul 2009 17:09:07 GMT, "rcoltrane" <u53588@uwe> wrote:

>I've read the blog you pointed me below but there's one thing that is still
>obscure for me:
>
>The guy says: "...you need to create a system environment variable called
>'MYVIRTUALMACHINES' with a value of the path that you want Virtual PC to use
>for the default location for storing virtual machines."
>
>Where do I create this 'variable'??? Inside the XP registry? In Virtual PC?
>In a cfg file? He doesn't explain how to do that and where...
>
>
>
>
>>
>>The default location for Virtual Machines is
>>
>>My Documents\My Virtual Machines.
>>
>>Store them some place else, like
>>
>>C:\My Virtual Machines
>>
>>so everybody can see them.
>>
>>See
>>
>>http://blogs.msdn.com/virtual_pc_guy...13/407796.aspx
>>
>>for how to change the default location.
>>