I have a virtual machine (in Virtual PC) that is used to run/update specific COM objects in our solution. Currently, both the host OS and the VM OS have separate workspaces, and I have to check out the files in either location, then check them in separately as work is completed.
It's also a huge branch (several GB of data) that needs to be pulled down over a slow VPN connection. Given that I need the files on my host and the VM, it means pulling this code down twice.
Is there a way I can configure the VM to make use of the Workspace on the host? I'm fairly sure I can map that folder into the VM, but I want, when I check out files in the VM, that it checks them out from the hosts workspace.
Update 1
I tried to fool the system, by setting the _CLUSTER_NETWORK_NAME_ environment variable as per this answer. This certainly allowed Visual Studio to see the workspace as valid for the machine. However, when I rebooted the machine, I couldn't connect to the machine since the Guest and the Host now appear to have the same name.
You cannot have the same workspace on two machines, fullstop. This means that you can fool Team Explorer mapping a common file system for both the machine, but careful! you should always get from one client and not the other. Now I can suggest you to test this recipe based on DiskMgmt.msc.
Say VM and PM your two clients, say that both map $/YourProj/src and you have $/YourProj/src/Common that you want to download once. PM workspace mapping is $/YourProj/src -> C:\src. PM is at least Win7; create a VHD and mount it on C:\src\Common; now you can get latest. Unmount the VHD, start your VM with the same VHD as a secondary disk. Mount this secondary disk as C:\src\Common inside the VM. Inside the VM the workspace mapping should be $/YourProj/src -> C:\src $/YourProj/src/Common -> (cloacked)