USB Wireless Adaptor & Display Adaptor

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Dikon - 30 Dec 2007 02:14 GMT

Hi,

There are 3 questions that I am wondering how to solve.

1) How to get my VPC to recognise and use the USB Wireless Netword Adaptor
as normal? Or anyway to link VPC to my Host PC?

2) I realise that when installing Windows XP on VPC, the Display Adaptor is
installed as a 4MB Display Adaptor. How can I make the RAM of the Display
Adaptor to be larger?

Specs on Host:
WinXPSP2
Physical RAM 3GB

Specs on VPC:
WinXPSP2
RAM 1GB allocated

Thanks.

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Colin Barnhorst - 30 Dec 2007 02:51 GMT

VPC does not use your host's usb ports. Is the adaptor in the drop down
list under Networking in the Settings for the vm? Is adaptor working with
the host?

If you have installed the virtual machine additions in the XP vm you will
have 8mb of video ram.

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Bill Grant - 31 Dec 2007 00:06 GMT

If the only network adapter in the host is USB, you probably can't use it
directly from your vm.

The best approach would be to install a Microsoft Loopback Adapter in
the host machine and use that as the basis for networking in the guest. If
you also want Internet access from the guest OS you can install ICS on the
host to share its network connection to the guest. There are quides for
doung this both in VPC help and in Ben's blog.
http://blogs.msdn.com/Virtual_PC_Guy/

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David Sherman - 31 Dec 2007 13:37 GMT

Use Vmware. With Nat, it using my wireless connection,

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