copernicus said:

Interesting, this setup this not work for me when I was trying to do something similar. There must have been changed right before release. I had a random usb device with no driver support for 7 or vista at the time. If the host 7 didn't recognize, xp mode didn't pull it either.

Good to know.
Virtual OS is useless otherwise! That's the whole point of having it - to run unsupported by the host hardware and software on it

Kari - let me know what you find out... I don't really know how to connect the 7 to any network connection in the XP, as there are no virtual adapters created in the 7 by the "Virtual PC" in comparison to VMWare for example....