Comments on: Real Network With Virtual Machine?

By: chezzrob

chezzrob — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 19:37:36 +0000

i read on the net somewhere to get XP to network with vista you have to go throughthe properties tab on the XP network screen ?? and on one of the tabs there is something you have to tick and presto it will see the vista machine
google your problems
as long as the laptop has power you be able to read the HDD
also on a laptop see if it has a vga plug on the rear plug in a monitor
go in display properties > settings> advance and set the monitor as the primary

By: Neo

Neo — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 12:47:25 +0000

I think you can get a external casing to insert the laptop’s hard drive and connect it through usb to any computer

By: SupaMark

SupaMark — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 12:37:34 +0000

a virtual machine can be given an ip which will is configured to TUNNEL through the physical network card. so in theory the VM will exist as a separate entity on your network and you can simply copy files as you would on a normal network connection. i believe the VMware documentation contains instructions on precisely how to do it.
hope this helps

By: Best Smartphone Software

Best Smartphone Software — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 07:05:07 +0000

If you can have VMWare on Vista that’s good. Add a network card into your virtual hardware (Ethernet) and set it to “Bridged”. Plug your physical ethernet connection before starting up VMWare (this enables the physical card). Make sure your virtual XP recognises that virtual card (IP address etc). When virtual XP is running it should be a matter of networking 2 XPs together. If still in trouble install VM tools on virtual XP (.iso image for your virtual CD ROM in the VMWare folder) – this may help VM XP to work better.
I also agree with the first answer: you can get external laptop disk drives (usb).