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How do I tranfer a file from a host machine to an isolated virtual machine?

How do I transfer (copy/paste.. drag/drop...etc.) a file from my host machine to the virtual server I have on the same physical box?

I am running Virtual Machine Manager and Hyper-V on a Server 2008 R2 box with a Server 2008 R2 virtual machine.

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Hyper-V does not support access to USB devices or support sound in guest VMs. Your only options are through n/w share or by CD/DVD/iso images. Since your VM is isolated from the n/w that rules out n/w shares. Your only option is iso images. You can download folder2iso, make a folder, keep the file(s) in the folder and then user folder2iso to make an iso of the folder. Mount the iso in the vm options.
http://www.trustfm.net/divx/SoftwareFolder2Iso.php?page=Folder2IsoDownload

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Shahid
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On the the physical server, create a share (for example \\physical\share). Just be sure to assign appropriate user permissions.

From the virtual machine, you can browse to \\physical\share, and then cut and past files and folders as desired.
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It's a shame that I could do it with Virtual PC, but not in Hyper-V.