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

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From: Mitchell Spector (mitch2gs_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 09/15/04 

Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2004 21:44:35 -0400

e1-qcpq-kt69-cbtm@emailias.com (Kurt L) wrote:

>Mitchell Spector <do-not-reply@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:...
>>
>> 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
>
>Thank you for posting this valuable set of instructions. Just to
>check: are there any restrictions on whether the users must shut down
>the guest OS completely as opposed to putting it in a suspended state
>before quitting? I dimly recall seeing a similar set of instructions,
>and for that solution there was this caveat about having to completely
>shut down the guest OS. Is that true here?

    I would have to test this to be certain, but from a technical stand point
I don't believe there should be a problem shutting down the guest OS in
a Saved-State or, possibly, even enabling Undo Drive.

    When shutting down choosing "Save PC State", the RAM image map
is stored inside the VPC6 package file (the "SavedState.vsv" file). The
same is true of the "UndoDrive1.vud" file, which holds the temporary disk
changes. That is the nice thing about the *.VPC6 package introduced
in version 6, everything is stored in one file (well folder, but to the user
it's just one large data file).

    If you're logging out of one user, and into the other, there should be no
issue. Now, if two users were to access the disk image at the same time,
then there would be a problem (though we're talking about a single
machine, one user at a time scenario).

    I'll do some experimenting tomorrow. At worst, a corrupted Saved State
and having to purge it is about the equivalent to suffering a power-failure
(or choosing the "Turn Off PC" option). The only data loss would be what
you happened to be working on or have open at the time you put the
emulated Windows in a hiberation/suspend mode.

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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