I have found that networking performance between a Windows 7 host and it's XP mode guest virtual machine is very poor.
File copies between a Windows 7 host and XP mode are very slow, printing is also very slow if you configure the guest XP mode vm to print via a shared network printer on the host rather than having it redirected.
I was working on an issue where XP mode was not properly assigning the port to the redirected printer causing print jobs to be hung up.
I figured that configuring it to use a shared printer on the host OS would be more reliable than redirection, however i'm finding printing is very slow to the printer on the host OS, it prints fine to other network printers.
It seems that this was discussed previously: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en/w7itprovirt/thread/9cf7bb78-6c09-4807-9b39-f6735ce8a2e0
But there was no resolution other than not using virtual PC for the xp mode vm.
Just wondering if anyone knew when Microsoft plans on fixing this problem with poor networking performance between a host and guest OS in Virtual PC.
File copies between a Windows 7 host and XP mode are very slow, printing is also very slow if you configure the guest XP mode vm to print via a shared network printer on the host rather than having it redirected.
I was working on an issue where XP mode was not properly assigning the port to the redirected printer causing print jobs to be hung up.
I figured that configuring it to use a shared printer on the host OS would be more reliable than redirection, however i'm finding printing is very slow to the printer on the host OS, it prints fine to other network printers.
It seems that this was discussed previously: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en/w7itprovirt/thread/9cf7bb78-6c09-4807-9b39-f6735ce8a2e0
But there was no resolution other than not using virtual PC for the xp mode vm.
Just wondering if anyone knew when Microsoft plans on fixing this problem with poor networking performance between a host and guest OS in Virtual PC.