Re: XP/Vbox/Win 8.1

[Bill Troop billtroop@xxxxxxxx]

This is the first I've heard of this problem existing in XP mode. I would
guess that you hadn't got the networking and renaming of the drive set up
right. I found that difficult with XP but once I got it right it stayed
right. XP mode under Win 7-64 has been stable for me for over a
year.


By the way, one of the things I don't like about my implementation of XP
mode - - I use a shortcut in Win 7 to invoke Editor - - is that the
session ends when I close down the machine. But I noticed that when I had
two editor instances running in XP mode, it did save their states.
I need to do some more testing here.


At 09/12/2013 06:57, you wrote:

This sounds like a problem I
mentioned previously re XP Mode in Win 7, where I could only see three
files when calling a Dir -- all of them files pertaining to the virtual
machine itself, rather than anything I actually wanted to find.  So
far, I've not been able to get to the bottom of this.  It does seem
to render having gotten the VM functional rather moot. 


I'll have to confirm this the next time I get to work on that laptop, but
I don't think the older Windows programs I got working in this VM
suffered from this problem.




   Jordan




From: Bill Troop 

To: xywrite@xxxxxxxx

Sent: Saturday, December 7, 2013 10:04 PM

Subject: Re: XP/Vbox/Win 8.1


I still have a mystifying problem with XyWrite: I can't get any
directories to display on the VBOX shared drives (which I have given
letters g: and h:). Xy4 will call up files on the shared drives if I
issue ca _filename, happening to know the filename. But it simply won't
display a directory. If I go into DOS from XyWrite, the directories
display as normal. Anyone got any ideas? (. . . can't wait for Windows
9!) - - B