[olePigeon]

At my work we had to buy VirtualPC for all the teachers with Macs as a workaround for a District required webpage that, of course, only works with Windows.

So we have 35 licenses of it, and I've been playing around with it. Unfortunately, I found out that I can't just copy the Windows Virtual Disk to other computers, much less other users. VPC gives me an error.

Anyone know of a way to copy a VPC Disk to other computers? This would save a LOT of time than having to install Windows on each iBook.

Thanks,

oP

OT: Just found a MacOSXHints article on it. I don't know if it'll work, though.

[peeb]

I don't know about this, but there might be other ways of getting the web-page to think that you are using windows - have you played with user agent switching? What requirement does the page have exactly? I can't help but feel there may be any easier way to do this.

[shiff]

This is mostly from memory.

I used to do this quite a bit and it worked fine. There is more then just one file that you need to copy with it and also make sure the directory structures are the same.

Normally there is 1 big file which is the virtual hard drive and there are 1 and possibly 2 configuration files that you need to copy with it and in the same directories.

The other thing you can do, if it has this option is move the files and create a new vm and see if there is an option to use "existing virtual drive image".

[olePigeon]

Hey, I found out how to do it, you don't need to copy any configuration files.

If you right-click on the VPC disk image, it's actually a Package file. Show Package Contents, then inside that is the actual disk image and a Config plist. Get info on both of those, set Permissions to R&W. Then set permissions on the VPC List folder to R&W and include items inside.

Then you double-click the VPC Disk Image package, and it'll automatically load it into VPC under any user.

It doesn't matter which directory you stick it in.

[peeb]

Originally Posted by olePigeon 

Hey, I found out how to do it, you don't need to copy any configuration files.

If you right-click on the VPC disk image, it's actually a Package file. Show Package Contents, then inside that is the actual disk image and a Config plist. Get info on both of those, set Permissions to R&W. Then set permissions on the VPC List folder to R&W and include items inside.

Then you double-click the VPC Disk Image package, and it'll automatically load it into VPC under any user.

It doesn't matter which directory you stick it in.

I'm still thinking there might be easier ways to do this...