>Has anyone experimented with the subject combination?
>>If so, were you able to access the XP hard drive(s) from within SLED?
>>Within SLED 10 were you able to R/W to a flash drive.
>Steve's kind reply is below, but he hasn't done it either!
>>TIA
>Bob
>
>I haven't, but you could only access your host hard drive via a SAMBA
>network share. There are no Shared Folders options for Linux.
>Same goes with a flash drive. THere is no USB support in VPC, so
>you'd have to share out your flash drive via standard Windows
>networking and access it that way.
>
>

> On Fri, 11 Jul 2008 16:17:54 -0500, "Bob Palank" <(email address - cut out)>
> wrote:
>
>>Has anyone experimented with the subject combination?
>>>If so, were you able to access the XP hard drive(s) from within SLED?
>>>Within SLED 10 were you able to R/W to a flash drive.
>>Steve's kind reply is below, but he hasn't done it either!
>>>TIA
>>Bob
>>
>>I haven't, but you could only access your host hard drive via a SAMBA
>>network share. There are no Shared Folders options for Linux.
>>Same goes with a flash drive. THere is no USB support in VPC, so
>>you'd have to share out your flash drive via standard Windows
>>networking and access it that way.
>>
>>
> What are you looking for if it works at all? Regardless of the OS,
> what I posted holds true, no direct USB access. VPC's shared folders
> are only via the VM Additions for Windows.
>
> For information on what works in VPC:
> http://vpc.visualwin.com
> There are quite a few SuSe Linux entries.
>
> If you have SLED10, why not just try and install it?
>
> --
> Cheers,
> Steve Jain, Virtual Machine MVP
> http://vpc.essjae.com/
> I do not work for Microsoft.

>I already have SLED10 installed and operating under VP 2007 and it runs as
>expected.
>But no intenet access, no USB drive access, and no XP NTFS HD access.
>As I understand, installation of SAMBA should allow SUSE to R/W to the last
>two ?

> On Fri, 11 Jul 2008 20:02:15 -0500, "Bob Palank" <(email address - cut out)>
> wrote:
>
>>I already have SLED10 installed and operating under VP 2007 and it runs as
>>expected.
>>But no intenet access, no USB drive access, and no XP NTFS HD access.
>
> Internet access from the guest is only possible if the NIC in the
> guest can connect to the external network. This will depend on the
> external network configuration. For example if you have a router that
> supplies DHCP service to hand out IP addresses like the typical ADSL
> home network, then it will work fine provieded that:
> - You set the guest network properties in VPC2007 to use the host NIC
> - Configure the guest to use DHCP to get its IP address
>
> USB is not supported at all in VPC2007 so you will never *directly* be
> able to access a USB drive from the guest no matter what kind of
> operating system you use on the guest.
>
> The *only* way to access the XP host drives (including any USB drive
> mounted on the host) is to share those drives on the network from the
> host and then connect to them from the guest via the network,
> precisely in the same way you would do this if the guest was installed
> on a different PC hardware on the network. This I believe includes
> installing and configuring SAMBA on the guest.
>
>>As I understand, installation of SAMBA should allow SUSE to R/W to the
>>last
>>two ?
>
> Exactly, SAMBA gives access to any Windows shared drive on the network
> provided it is correctly configred.
>
>

>So SAMBA supplies the virtual network functionality?
>It certainly wouldn't
>be a physical network in my case since there is only one laptop and one
>processor. So SAMBA must talk to the VPC which uses XP to provide HD data
>back to the VPC and then back to SLED ? And all this needs to happen on one
>laptop.
>
>With respect to wireless internet connectivity, I might be working in a
>library or an airport or Starbucks. I suspect that I could have two web
>browsers active - IE in XP and another in SLED and toggle from one to the
>other via the right alt and mouse movement ?
>TIA
> Bob