I just found the windows xp mode documents and I discovered that the how to guide says that it CAN share drives. also, it can work in a mode where xp apps make windows 7 program folder icons, but start the VM. the windows xp mode comes with 7 Pro and up.
only question I have left is, does it have command.com? ________________________________ From: Eric Auer <[email protected]> To: Jim Michaels <[email protected]>; [email protected] Sent: Fri, May 14, 2010 1:55:21 PM Subject: Re: [Freedos-devel] freedos emulation under 64-bit windows 7 Hi Jim, > I did more research I and I heard some rumblings about windows 7's > "Windows XP Mode". it turns out it's a Windows Virtual PC that Nice :-) > emulates XP yet provides access to your devices. I don't know what > kind of filesystem access it provides. Very interesting question. > http://www.microsoft.com/windows/virtual-pc/support/faq.aspx > http://www.microsoft.com/windows/virtual-pc/ > and, it's 32-bit always. so I think i'm covered if I get a 64-bit 7 > box. > > the only issues left are the filesystem virtual store. if anything > ever touches c:\program files\ and it doesn't have a manifest, or > something is trying to write data there, the app gets shuffled off to > the virtual store area. this has been happening since vista. Can you explain this a bit more? > what I don't know is, will xp mode share filesystems with windows 7? > that is VERY important. I need to be able to share data in at least > SOME way. does anybody know whether it can do this? > > best case: share NTFS > next best case: share FAT32 Possibly on USB stick :-) > worst case: burn a cd. (sneakernet) very wasteful. Try DVD-RW then ;-) Or DVD-RAM but that might be a bit outside of the CD/DVD topic then. Eric
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