Re: Xy on Mac revisited-Parallel Universe

[Lisa Kleinholz lkleinholz@xxxxxxxx]

Junja--

Thank you for the suggestions. I will try to apply them when I have
time (too much already sunk in Parallels).

Below is a response from Parallels Support on floppy and CD-ROM drives.
So far there is nothing specifically about sharing folders, and I guess
that means there's no way to do it right now:

Lisa

>From Parallels Support:

>Parallels Desktop connects Mac external floppy drive as USB device to
>the VM and, unlike Windows, MS-DOS doesn't have built-in drivers for
>many devices, including CD-ROM and USB devices.
>Any MS-DOS CD-ROM driver is 3rd party software and we cannot
distribute
>it nor provide support for it, but any IDE ATAPI CD-ROM DOS driver
>should work for Parallels Desktop. You can check this article for
>possible tips on installing the driver -
>http://oldfiles.org.uk/powerload/cdrom.htm.
>The best way to transfer the driver files to VM would be to make image
>file of the floppy disk that contains the driver files and connect it
to
>VM, please check the attached file for instructions on how to make
such
>image.

--- junja  wrote:

>
> Lisa, I've been following your exploits with Parallels
> with interest. By chance I've just come across a
> review of it. Highly positive, I'd add. Way
> better than Apple's Boot Camp. Amongst the points
> it makes:
>
> It needs the installation disk of any OS it is to
> run - Windows 3.1 to Vista, Linux, Solaris, Dos ..
>
> Each OS installed has its own space on the hard
> disk - but copying and pasting files between
> systems is apparently possible.
>
> Lisa Kleinholz wrote:
>
> > I have not been able to get the VM to engage with my CD drive,
> although
> > the documentation seems to say that I should be able to do it.
> >
> > I assume DOS has not been properly set up (just using bare minimum
> > files) and I'm not technically adept enough to know quite where to
> go
> > from here.
>
> In an original Dos setup, to get the cd working would need:
>
> - a line in c:\config.sys like
>   device = c:\gscdrom.sys /d:mscd000 /v
> - and a line in c:\autoexec.bat like
>   c:\mscdex.exe /d:mscd000 /l:f /m:10 /v
>
> but I've no idea if that would work in Parallels.
>
> [mscdex.exe comes with Dos while the .sys file would have been
> supplied with the cd drive - and would allow reading only,
> not writing. Though there are alternatives available I believe
> which allow writing.]
> Good luck
> Junja
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