User Guide

40 Virtual PC 4.0 for Windows User Guide

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NOTE Virtual PC does not support drag-and-drop operations directly

from one virtual machine to another. You can, however, move ﬁles and

folders from one virtual machine to the host PC, and then move them

again from the host PC to another guest PC.

Copy and paste

You can copy and paste text and graphics between an application

running on a virtual machine and an application running on the host

PC, or vice versa. You can also copy and paste between virtual

machines.

Text is copied unformatted. (Formatting, including bold, italic, or

paragraph styles, is not transferred.) Graphics are transferred as bit-

maps.

Sharing folders

You can designate a folder or volume for sharing between the host PC

and a virtual machine (see page 58). For example, if you download

shareware ﬁles from the World Wide Web to your host PC, you can

share the host PC folder the ﬁles are in and then access the ﬁles from

the virtual machine.

You can share the same host PC folder with multiple virtual machines

running at the same time.

Sharing CDs

A physical CD inserted in a host PC CD-ROM drive is automatically

captured on the virtual machine—the frontmost machine if you are

running several—and mounted on the host PC. (This prevents the

host PC from auto-playing the CD.) You can also capture the CD

simultaneously to other virtual machines using the CD shortcut

menu on the VPC Toolbar.

Note that:

You can capture or release a CD or a .iso image from a virtual

machine using the CD shortcut menu on the VPC Toolbar.

You can set an option to boot the virtual machine from a CD.

(See page 56.)

You can eject a CD using the CD shortcut menu on the VPC

Toolbar.