Re: VPC drives on FireWire HD

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From: Joel Nelson (joel.w.nelson1_at_no.msn.spam.com)
Date: 04/26/04 

Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2004 10:13:52 -0500

On 4/25/04 10:57 AM, in article
785efe42.0404250757.7b95c9ea@posting.google.com, "Jean-Miche"
<jean-michel.albert@wanadoo.fr> wrote:

> Joel Nelson <joel.w.nelson1@no.msn.spam.com> wrote in message
> news:<BCAE98CD.2323%joel.w.nelson1@no.msn.spam.com>...
>> I would like to have my Virtual PC hard drive images on an external FireWire
>> drive, since it is 120 GB and my iBook internal drive is just 20 GB. I
>> think I know how to do this -- just save the disk images in VPC to a folder
>> on the FireWire drive -- but is there anything I'm overlooking?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Joel Nelson
>
> Virtual PC doesn't emulate Firewire. Meanwhile, you could obtain it
> for Firewire HD with the help of "designate folders for sharing
> between the virtual machine and the Macintosh. You can also
> automatically share local volumes...."
> Just have a look on the help in the VPC menus.

Actually, it wasn't emulating FireWire I was asking about; it was storing my
VPC drive images on a Mac FireWire drive. I eventually figured it out...
this may be of use to anyone else who wants to do this.
>From Virtual PC, create a new drive image and save it to a folder on the
FireWire drive. Find this new image on the FireWire drive (in Finder) and
make an alias to it.
Now on your system hard drive (where your Home folder resides) go to the
Virtual PC List folder inside Documents. Move the alias (not the disk image
itself) from the FireWire drive to the Virtual PC List folder.
Rename the alias so its name is the same as the drive image on the FireWire
drive, making sure the alias has a .vpc6 extension. (i.e. "Linux.vpc6")

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