[AccessD] windows vm

John,

I'm not sure I understand the question but this is what I do with not known 
problem.
Main Machine Vista 64 running MS Virtual PC2007.
The VM's are stored on my server (2003)
I run an XP pro VM with QuickBooks in it. Each time I exit QB it creates a 
backup on the Server.

I just tested copying a folder on the main machine and pasting it back with 
no problems.

HTH

Bill

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From: "jwcolby" <jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com>
Sent: Saturday, August 01, 2009 4:06 PM
To: "Access Developers discussion and problem solving" 
<accessd at databaseadvisors.com>
Subject: [AccessD] windows vm

Does anyone know if the Windows VM stuff allows the vm to access disk drives 
on the host machine?

I use Windows Home Server, which runs over the top of Windows 2003.  I have 
been using it
successfully for well over a year, however it seems I overclocked my cpu 
some time back and managed
to damage the OS - it started rebooting on me.  By the time I discovered the 
problem I had to do a
reinstall.

I run MyMovies which is a third party add-in for Windows Media Center.  It 
uses a SQL Server 2005
express database (very small, about 10 mbytes), which I had running on the 
WHS server.  Now of
course I have to rebuild that as well as other software I had installed for 
the purpose of ripping
my dvds to hard disk etc.

Since I have to reinstall, it occurred to me that if I placed that in a VM 
(and it will run in a vm)
then I can place the vm out in another drive and if the time ever comes to 
move the database, it
will be in a vm and be easily portable.

I tried to use VMWare.  While it does allow me to map a physical drive to 
the vm and see it from
inside the vm, for some reason it does not see all of the directories of the 
host's drive and even
those that it can see it cannot manipulate correctly.  Maaaaaybe it has to 
do with the drive being
1.5 gb, not sure.  At any rate, the software running in the vm needs to be 
able to read (rip) dvds
and store them on a physical drive on the host machine.

I am trying to get Microsoft's VM stuff set up but I know nothing about it 
and before I get too
deeply into this and discover it does not do this, I thought I'd ask.

So, can the VM see, read and write to a host drive or partition, which is 
still visible to the host,
i.e. either writing to the disk will not cause corruption.  In fact the 
Windows Media Center does
not write to the movies stuff but it does write to music files IIRC and so I 
do not want any chance
of corrupting stuff.

Anyone?

-- 
John W. Colby
www.ColbyConsulting.com
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