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Planning for the Installation of Windows 7
Installing Integration Components
After installing an operating system using Virtual PC, you may notice that things aren’t
running as smoothly as you’d like them to be. For one thing, every time you click within a
Virtual PC environment, your mouse gets trapped there. You can press Ctrl+Alt+left arrow
to get it out, but it’d be a lot easier if your mouse moved in and out of this window just as it
can do with other windows.
You can install the Integration Components after the operating system has been installed
on the VPC. In addition to helping your mouse work a little better, they’ll also give access
to the following resources:
Clipboard You will be able to copy and paste data back and forth from the host operating
system to the virtual machine. Data copied in one environment is available on the clipboard
in the other environment.
Hard drives You’ll have access to all of the hard drives on the host system from within the
virtual machine. The drives appear as shares within Windows Explorer in the format of X
on ComputerName where X is the actual drive letter and ComputerName is the name of
the host computer. For example, if the host computer is named Client1, the C: drive would
appear in Windows Explorer on the virtual machine as C on Client1.
Printers Printers available to the host system are available to the virtual machine. This
allows you to print to a printer from the virtual machine.
USB devices USB devices plugged into the host system can be accessed from the virtual
machine.
You can install the Integration Components by following the steps in Exercise 1.8.
EXERCISE 1.8
Installing Integration Components
1. With a Windows Virtual PC console open, click the Tools drop-down menu and select
Install Integration Components. An AutoPlay box will pop up.
2. Click Run Setup.exe within the AutoPlay dialog box.
3. A Welcome page will appear. Click Next on the Welcome page, and click Yes when
prompted by User Account Control. After a moment, the installation will complete.
4. Click Finish, and then click Yes to restart your computer.
After you reboot and log onto the system, you’ll find that your mouse now treats the
VPC environment just like any other window, but you’re not finished yet.
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