Re: Installing Mac VPC 6.1.1 for all Mac users to share the same VPCs

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From: Nunyo Beesness (nunyo_at_nunyobeesness.com)
Date: 09/14/04 

Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2004 15:15:18 -0700

Thanks, Mitchell.

I figured much of this out over the weekend by trial and error. OBTW, it
wasn't -alluser on the windows command line, it was -defaultuser which the
currnet MS version does not support. No great loss, I restored my
powerquest backup to get Connectix VPC 5.2 for widows back after installing
VPC 2004 at work today. I'll have to get my money back.
 Removing -defaultuser is a giant step backward on the PC side. The package
sure is pretty though.

nunyo

"Mitchell Spector" <do-not-reply@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:ormck0ho5ka92ra3p7h7kap6nb24bjjcd1@4ax.com...
> "nunyo" <nunyo@nunyobeesnes.com> wrote:
>
> [snip...]
> >I installed MacOS X VPC V6.1.1 while logged in with admin rights, but I
> >never thought about the -alluser switch because the Mac install is so
> >different. I forgot to get the image back off her drive for the next
day.
> >When she logged in MacOS X as a normal restricted user and tried to start
> >VPC, it ask for the CD key and started creating another VPC. We couldn't
> >access the one already created even though it's in an all user read/write
> >partition. She tried V5 and it did the same thing- we've never tried it
> >before.
> >
> >Is there a way to do the -alluser trick in the MacOS X version?
>
> I assume what you're trying to accomplish here is share a Virtual
Machine
> hardisk image (e.g. the "Windows XP.vpc6" package file) between two or
more
> MacOS users accounts, on the same computer. Correct? To do so, do the
> following...
>
> 1) Log into the administrator account, with Virtual PC quit
> 2) Navigate to... Users:<yourname>:Documents:Virtual PC List
> 3) Select the image and choose "Get Info" from the 'File' menu (or
Apple-I)
> 4) Click on and expand out the 'Ownership & Permissions' category
> 5) Set Owner, Group and Others all to "Read & Write" (after unlocking)
> 6) Move the file into the location... Users:Shared
> 7) Create an Alias of the hardisk image (under 'File', then 'Make Alias')
> 8) Drag the _Alias_ into... Users:<yourname>:Documents:Virtual PC List
> 9) Log out of the administrator account, and into the guest account
> 10) Start up Virtual PC from the 'Applications' folder and personalize it
> 11) When the Setup Assistance appears, simply close it and quit Virtual PC
> 12) Go into the location... Users:Shared, create another Alias
> 13) Drag the Alias into the newly created "Virtual PC List" folder (see
#2)
> 14) Start up Virtual PC; repeat steps 9 through 13 for all other accounts)
>
> Essentially what we're doing is placing the hardisk image into a
publicly
> accessible place (the "Shared" folder path), making sure Virtual PC has
full
> read/write privileges to the image, and simply putting an Alias where
Virtual
> PC would expect to find guest OS image stored. Make sure you're placing
> an Alias in each 'Virtual PC List' folder, with the original file in the
> 'Shared' folder (not visa-versa, or it obviously won't work). Each user
will
> will have access to the same guest OS.
>
> Mitchell Spector
> Microsoft Support Professional - Virtual PC for Macintosh
>
> The views and opinions expressed in this newsgroup posting
> are my own and do not necessarily express or reflect the views
> and/or opinions of Microsoft.

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