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Share VirtualPC 7 images between users on one Mac Apps
After installing VirtualPC 7 on my iBook G4, I realized that I couldn't use the same Windows XP Pro disk image on both my personal user account and my student account. Trying to manually choose the Windows XP disk image in my Virtual PC Lists folder of my personal account (where the image sits) did not work. Finally I got frustrated and tried this:
  1. Changed permissions on my Documents -> Virtual PC Lists folder so that everybody could read/write it.
  2. Switched to the student account and navigated to the Documents -> Virtual PC Lists folder of the personal account. Made an alias of the "Virtual PC Lists" folder and moved it to the "Documents" folder of my student account.
  3. Opened Virtual PC 7 and it worked perfectly.
Hope this helps.
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Share VirtualPC 7 images between users on one Mac
Authored by: reiggin on Nov 17, '04 10:04:55AM

I just keep mine in the Shared users folder. Seems to work fine. Just have to make sure that the permissions are set properly when you first place the file there.



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Share VirtualPC 7 images between users on one Mac
Authored by: logo on Nov 17, '04 10:22:47AM

What about the Save State? Will the 2nd User reload the Save State of User 1?

If so, then that would mean that every user must be aware that the saved state/data will be at everybody else's fingertips...

If not, then every user should always keep in mind to shut down the PC completely...



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Share VirtualPC 7 images between users on one Mac
Authored by: oldlibmike on Nov 17, '04 12:05:17PM

I did the "share thing" under VP 6 and the save state problem was existent there. You can share the image (and I do) but the save state remains personal. Found no way under VPC 6 to do this. I would love to see if this is changed in VP 7 before upgrading!



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Share VirtualPC 7 images between users on one Mac
Authored by: Bruce Miller on Nov 17, '04 12:36:09PM

Since VPC6 the saved states are part of the drive image package file and are completely portable with the drive image (one can duplicate the drive image and start up from the last use state).

If the alias of the drive image inside the PC List folder is copied to the desired second PC List folder it will start right up from the last saved state.



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