Darren New wrote:
> Is there an easy way to do this? It's trivial to share a CD drive, 
> simple to share a SMB share if the child machine is running Windows. Has 
> anyone run Linux under MS Virtual PC and gotten it to mount a share to 
> talk to the host operating system thru?  It's kind of annoying to have 
> to burn files to a CD to copy them in and out.  I saw the bit about 
> mounting .vhd drives on the host, but it looks kind of daunting to try 
> out.  Simpler would be better.


FWIW, I used Sun's Virtual Box (www.virtualbox.org) and was able to 
share folders between Windows and Ubuntu rather easily. You may want to 
try that VPC host, its very nice and has extensions for many Linux 
distros that can make life easier. It was quite easy to set up, and IIRC 
sharing only required running a simple installer on the guest machine.

You could also "burn" an ISO file, and mount that in Virtual PC. (IIRC, 
if not mount the ISO in virtual CloneDrive on the host OS)

-- 
~Mike

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