Folder Sharing between Windows 7 and VM

re: Folder Sharing between Windows 7 and VM

farhan — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 11:17:30 GMT

Hi, I just copied the file from Win 7 to a XP vitual machine, by drag and drop.

The steps are::

In the VMware Player go to the

Player>>Manager>>Install Vmware Tools.

The installation will take couple of minutes, Once installed it will prompt for restart.

After restart you can drag and drop the files from host to Virtual machine or vice versa.

re: Folder Sharing between Windows 7 and VM

Just a Dude — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 04:25:39 GMT

It still amazes me that it is quicker to burn a file to a CD and read it with the reader than use the built in things to share files between a PC and a virtual PC on the same box. Actually, it is disgustingly hard, poorly implemented, not well thought out. Drag and drop technology is 20 years old, WTF?

re: Folder Sharing between Windows 7 and VM

Kelvin — Sat, 17 Sep 2011 02:57:38 GMT

this is lousy.....expection dissapointed

re: Folder Sharing between Windows 7 and VM

rookie1024 — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 16:29:15 GMT

I am not very happy about the way that XP Mode shares. I need it to integrate the program files on my C drive with the program files on its C drive seamlessly so that I can use the registration software - which instantly crashes when opened in Windows 7 - for some of my programs installed on the host system. But I cannot acheive this end, and I do not want to install these programs on XP Mode

re: Folder Sharing between Windows 7 and VM

Fester — Mon, 02 May 2011 06:41:31 GMT

About the communication between vpc and the host i really wish i could be faster also i´d wonder why sp3 says my initial CPU host on computer properties that has 4 core and in taskmanager it only utliilzies one of them, whould be real neat if the VPC could use multiple cores.

re: Folder Sharing between Windows 7 and VM

Steve — Sat, 11 Dec 2010 17:12:30 GMT

Documentation about the "credentials" is also inadequate.

(ref Raghav 13 Sep 2010 6:53 AM )

Are these credentials resident on the Host or the Guest?

Is there a 'virtual' domain in existence here?

Or is an undocumented domain being created?

How can the Credentials be updated / changed / recovered at a later date?

Are these user- or machine- credentials? (on host?, on guest?)

What is the default security policy? Where is it managed?

It is recommneded that they should be "remembered" when the machine is first created - where is the explanation of precisely where and how they are being remembered (registry? domain? which domain? encrypted?)

What happens if they are not remembered?

If they really must be remembered why is there an option to not remember them?

re: Folder Sharing between Windows 7 and VM

Steve — Sat, 11 Dec 2010 16:59:55 GMT

Spolit by a lack of useful documentation.

The integration features problem (Lenny 18 Mar 2010 2:47 AM ) is something to do with Remote Desktop services being disabled on my machine - but I cannot find a combination of enabled services which works.

There is no documentation about how this works.

It seems a very clumsy way of integrating the drives.

The guest machine should just have a driver installed which communicates with the host filesytem as if it was a device, with appropriate priveleges etc managed on the host system. (The guest machine could just appear as a user(s) with a profile(s) on the host machine).

This would then probably permit drag and drop etc. whilst still permiting security to be managed.

It would also solve the problem of the host drives not being seen as local to the guest machine.

The host resources should appear to be local to the guest machine (as defined by appropriate settings in the host machine environment).

re: Folder Sharing between Windows 7 and VM

Terry — Thu, 04 Nov 2010 02:43:35 GMT

I installed XP mode to allow my older version of Groove (won't run under Windows 7) to function. Groove works fine, except for one key thing...

When setting up folders for Groove to synchronize, I want to be able synchronize with Windows 7 folders. I can pick the mapped drives within XP mode, but unfortunately Groove doesn't like that, saying "This folder cannot be synchronized because it resides on a remote drive".

I was hoping that I could run Groove for a while each day to get updates propogated into my Windows 7 file structure.

I guess that is not possible with VM and XP mode.

re: Folder Sharing between Windows 7 and VM

Speed? — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 02:27:33 GMT

Why is the file transfers between vm and share folder is at 3.5" diskette speed, maybe even a bit lower.

XP does not show transfer rate like Windows 7, but it seems to me at about 1MB/s, not much faster.

re: Folder Sharing between Windows 7 and VM

anonymous — Sun, 17 Oct 2010 20:34:54 GMT

well you can use simple copy paste to share file and folder between windows 7 and windows xp mode