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Map network drive in Virtual XP Mode
I have a new DELL 8500 with Windows 7 Pro. I have downloaded and installed the XP Mode. I can open the virtual machine and do some things there, but am unable to get the networking straight. I've searched and read *many* threads in this and other forums on this site, but am unable to resolve my problem.
I have another computer running XP Pro. I can connect the Win7 and the XP Pro computer, share files, map remote drives, and just about anything I want to do. My problem comes when I try to do similar things with the virtual machine in XP mode. I've tried a number of settings and gotten only partial success by having both real computers in HOME mode, going to the settings page on the Virtual XP and setting up two adapter connections:
adapter 1: Shared Networking (NAT)
adapter 2: Realtek PCIe GBE Family Controller.
When I open the virtual XP Mode window, I can *sometimes* drill down to looking at Workgroup in microsoft windows network in Entire network and see the virtual machine and my XP pro machine in the workgroup. At other times I get a message that says "the list of servers for this workgroup is not currently available". On at least one occasion, Workgroup displayed the virtual machine and my XP Pro machine. When that happened, I was able to do a "map network drive" and get the drives mounted into the virtual computer. Those mapped drives seem to get remembered, and I can open them and use them just as if they are part of the drive structure of the virtual computer.
What I have never been able to do is to get the virtual computer recognize that the primary Windows 7 computer belongs to Workgroup. My XP Pro computer does recognize the Win7 computer, and is able to map a network drive to it. When I look at the network on either the Win7 or the XP Pro computers, it does show me the virtual machine as VIRTUALXP -- but I cannot open its files from either computer.
All three computers are set to be HOME when setting up the network.
In short, my question is:
how do I get the virtual machine to recognize the other two computers in Workgroup, and then map network drives from them into the virtual environment.