File Sharing Between Windows 7 and Windows XP Mode.

Hi Sm921, welcome to the Seven Forums.

First, check that the integration features are installed on XP Mode. See this tutorial for installing and enabling integration features on XP Mode and other Virtual PC virtual machines: Windows Virtual PC Integration Features - Install, Enable, and Disable.

For sharing between XP Mode and your host system, see this thread: XP Mode, sharing files on guest machine. At the end of the post #2 in said thread you'll find a solution for saving XP Mode documents directly to Windows 7 host.

Kari

sm921 said:

I think the integration feature is already enabled in XP Mode, since when I click on tools it only gives the choice of disabling it.

Integration is by default installed and enabled if not changed by user so that's OK.

sm921 said:

I am having trouble with following sharing thread. First, I am not sure which of the options in the drop down list is the host network controller. Can you tell me where that information is located in win 7?

Open the Device Manager > Network Adapters. It can as in this example from my PC show quite a many entries, but if you exclude all Bluetooth and Virtual adapters, what's left is your network adapters. In my case here the Broadcom is my WiFi adapter, Realtek the LAN (Ethernet) adapter:

sm921 said:

The next thing I had trouble with was finding the shared documents folder in win 7. I see in your screen shot that your SharedDocs folder is in the XPMODE-1 folder within the Network folder. I only have my computer folder and my printer folder in the Network folder. It doesn't give me a choice for XP Mode.

The XPMODE-1 is not a folder, it is the name of my XP Mode virtual machine as seen in the host (Windows 7) My Computer > Network which shows a list of networked computers.

sm921 said:

Finally, I really liked the practical tip you gave and tried to implement it, but when I tried to select the destination folder for My Documents folder I could only get as far as the Workgroup folder. The folder would not give me the next subfolder choice.

I have manually created the folder in host (Windows 7). I later redirected XP Mode documents folder to this folder on host. If networking and sharing is set properly, you can browse the host folder structure from here and select any folder.

Read these tutorials for more information:

• File Sharing - Between XP and W7 (and vice versa)
• Windows Virtual PC - Select Host Devices to Share