[ltp] T40p VMWARE +XP

[Ben Pfaff]

"Hartwig, Thomas" <t.hartwig@crapoud.com> writes:

> anyone out there using VMWARE workstation 4.0.5 with the installed
> Windows XP thru a raw device? I get a BSOD right in the beginning of
> the start of XP. I already deactivated all possible hardware devices
> in XP, but no success. I'm afraid I have to install XP in a VMWARE
> environment.

VMware doesn't emulate your real hardware, it emulates one
particular kind of real hardware.  A real system can't
necessarily be booted within VMware because the real system's
hardware may differ from VMware's virtual in important ways.
-- 
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 And that's being so good at what you do that they can't ignore you.
 I told them you were the best.  Now you damn well better be."
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