On Tue, 06 Jan 2009 10:11:45 -0800, 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.

Why not just configure SAMBA in the guest?  I don't know VPC, but if it 
does anything like VMware, the Host/Guest filesystem sharing isn't as 
solid as just going native CIFS or SMB.

Jim

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