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Virtual PC HD and and New WinXP User Profile

Source: microsoft.public.virtualpc
Sent: 07/27/2009
From: "rcoltrane" <u53588@uwe>
Message:

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??

Thanks!
Roger.

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Re: Virtual PC HD and and New WinXP User Profile

Sent: 07/27/2009
From: David Wilkinson <(email address - cut out)>
Message:

rcoltrane wrote:

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/archive/2005/04/13/407796.aspx

for how to change the default location.

--
David Wilkinson
Visual C++ MVP

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> 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??

Re: Virtual PC HD and and New WinXP User Profile

Sent: 07/27/2009
From: Robert Comer <(email address - cut out)>
Message:

http://vlaurie.com/computers2/Articles/environment.htm

--
Bob Comer

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

Show quoted text

>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/archive/2005/04/13/407796.aspx
>>
>>for how to change the default location.
>>

Re: Virtual PC HD and and New WinXP User Profile

Sent: 07/27/2009
From: "rcoltrane" <u53588@uwe>
Message:

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...

Show quoted text

>
>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/archive/2005/04/13/407796.aspx
>
>for how to change the default location.
>

Re: Virtual PC HD and and New WinXP User Profile

Sent: 07/27/2009
From: "Mark Rae [MVP]" <(email address - cut out)>
Message:

"rcoltrane" <u53588@uwe> wrote in message news:99b5727bd7c44@uwe...

GIYF:
http://www.google.co.uk/search?aq=f&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q="Windows+XP"+"environment+variable"

--
Mark Rae
ASP.NET MVP
http://www.markrae.net

Show quoted text

> 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...

Re: Virtual PC HD and and New WinXP User Profile

Sent: 07/27/2009
From: "rcoltrane" <u53588@uwe>
Message:

OK, now i got it!!!

Thanks a lot for the replies.

Roger.

Mark Rae [MVP] wrote:

Show quoted text

>> 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
>[quoted text clipped - 4 lines]
>> PC?
>> In a cfg file? He doesn't explain how to do that and where...
>
>GIYF:
>http://www.google.co.uk/search?aq=f&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q="Windows+XP"+"environment+variable"
>

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