Share VirtualPC 7 images between users on one Mac

Nov 17, '04 09:15:00AM

Contributed by: Anonymous

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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