Hi All,
First time caller. Short time reader. Just began my VM odyssey and my VM ship has holes.
This is my problem.. i hope there is enough detail and usable language.
Physical Machine:
CPU i5 3570K
MSI Z77A GD55 with Virtual crap in BIOS enabled
16GB RAM
120G SSD - 60G free
1T HDD - 900G free in 4 partitions. (I didn't create a partion on the SDD or HDD to specifically provide space for the vdisk.)
MSI 7870 Vid Card
2 monitors
Windows 7 Pro 64
I use the SSD for a game. I keep Win 7 Pro, the game on the SSD. Win 7 Pro knows SSD as C:/
I want to use the VM XP mode to load another game client and drive both toons via hotkey program that sends keystrokes from my single keyboard to multiple "named" machines/"named" windows. Basically dual box 2 game clients - one on host Win 7 and another on guest XP.
I installed XP mode and then VM Player 5. Imported the XP mode over. It appears to basically function. I'm doing this in the VM XP now. I have surfed web on XP VM, but tried nothing else for fear of SNAFU.
Confusion: What disk is the VM using?
The VM has a 127G vdisk set up. I don't recall ever having a chance to set this size. All I want the XP mode is to run another copy of the game -- 4G disk space and hotkey program so I can drive all game clients with 1 keyboard plus the OS. Don't need 127G! Plus when I exit, I occasionally get a pop up saying my vdisk needs defrag. ??? The physical drives are basically empty and the vdisk is hours old with no programs installed - IE and media player.
So which drive is the 127G reading and writing from. XP says its C:/ (the SSD on Win 7) but the C: is only 120G. The VM player app is saved to a partition on the HDD (W:/) but I assigned the VM working drive and other VM thing to C:/ on Win 7 Pro.
Questions:
1) Is the vdisk set up correctly and which drive is the VM using and is it safe to believe that vdisk will not write over files.
By the way, I open up Computer in Win 7 and look at the hard disk space before and after VM install and I can't see where 127G is taken up.
By the way, I open up Computer in Win & after launching VM XP mode and disk space is same as pre launch.
2) I want a unique IP address for the XP mode so I can send keystrokes to it via the hotkey program.
-- I have no idea if I domain is set up or if things need to networked etc. n00b!
Any help is much appreciated.
