In Windows Virtual PC: Is there a way to assign local drive letter in the Guest O/S that points to a physical drive on the host?
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I have a bunch of programming projects on my P:\ drive (on Windows 7) I'm now doing some programming within Virtual PC Windows XP Mode and I'd like to "call" that drive, within the Win XP guest, the P: drive. I've mapped drive letter P: to "network" drive on the Host but that goes across the networ…
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I tried mapping a network drive (P) to tsclient\p but it was incredibly slow accessing the drive. A blog entry on an MS blog confirmed that Virtual PC accesses a local mapped network drive slower than it would a network resource (which in itself is …
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