Parallel's Desktop XP & VMWare Fusion Vista Situation (Two different questions I have) / Thank you

I would never use shared folder in "my" system. Crashed my system badly in my last install.

[cite] roisoft:You can add shared folders from your mac disk, you need edit the settings of your virtual machine and in xp open network, protocol tcp/ip, advanced, wins, enable netbios.

I really don't know, hence I can't answer, sorry. However, it seems to depend on the Machine which Application runs faster.

For me it's VMWare Fusion, which is running much more smooth than Parallels.

I don´t like Parallels, I prefer VMware, i think it´s more faster and smooth but it´s only my opinion ... 512mb of ram are enough for XP but Vista needs a lot of resources … if you edit your settings in Vmware you can add another hard drive for your virtual machine only click over "+" and that´s all, in windows you can resize the drive with virtual disk manager and diskpart from cmd but i´m sorry i don´t know if it´s possible expand the main HD in mac.

If you have a XP/Vista drive/partition (not virtual) you can use it like a BootCamp drive from VMware or Parallels.

[cite] roisoft:If you have a XP/Vista drive/partition (not virtual) you can use it like a BootCamp drive from VMware or Parallels.

this is exactly what I have done and it works perfectly (vmware fusion / xp pro sp2) but xp cannot see my other hard disk (sata).
Do you know how could I do?

If im reading this correctly your other harddisk is your mac os x harddisk? thats probally because its a HFS+ formatted so windows cant see it.

You can add shared folders from your mac disk, you need edit the settings of your virtual machine and in xp open network, protocol tcp/ip, advanced, wins, enable netbios…

hackintosh4life , no I mean a third hard disk NTFS. Ar roisoft stated the only way I succeded to access it is through shared folders, but I was wondering if there was some other way to do it I was missing. Thanks for your reply

I can access mac drives in windows using macdrive program, leopard cannot see my win drives.

in fusion I can just drag and drop from mac to windows and viceversa, after installing vmware tools.

There is a program to allow leopard to read ntfs but im not sure what its called, I use hardware raid on my vista, so leopard doesn't even recognise the raid so I gave up.

Good Luck

Now I software raid my leopard so macdrive can't see it anymore. So I give up again.
It all still works with fusion though.