File Sharing: Physical Vista and Virtual XP

[Hal]

I have a Virtual Machine installed on my physical computer. The Virtual PC
runs XP and the physical PC runs Vista. I have read that the file sharing
options in the Virtual Additions package are not the best. The advice I have
received, on these boards, is to use Vista's built-in file sharing.

So, can anyone offer advice on how to configure my Vista computer to share
files with my XP virtual computer? I tried reading Vista's help pages on
sharing, but it soon became complex. Surely this should be fairly easy, right?

Thanks.

 

[Steve Winograd]

I have a Virtual Machine installed on my physical computer. The Virtual PC
runs XP and the physical PC runs Vista. I have read that the file sharing
options in the Virtual Additions package are not the best. The advice I have
received, on these boards, is to use Vista's built-in file sharing.

So, can anyone offer advice on how to configure my Vista computer to share
files with my XP virtual computer? I tried reading Vista's help pages on
sharing, but it soon became complex. Surely this should be fairly easy, right?

Thanks.

To enable file sharing using Windows networking, go to the XP virtual
machine's settings, click Network, then select the Vista machine's
actual network adapter. The machines can then share each other's
folders using the usual Windows networking tools.

The "Shared Folders" feature in Virtual Machine Additions lets a
virtual machine access a folder belonging to the host machine by
mapping a drive letter to the host folder. It doesn't let the host
access a folder belonging to the virtual machine.
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