[ltp] T40p VMWARE +XP - SOLVED -

[Hartwig, Thomas]

Hi Brad and Steve,

your pointers to

http://www.vmware.com/support/ws3/doc/ws32_disks8.html#1009931

helped very much using my installed XP without reinstall it, nothing 
more to say then thanks.

Cheers
Thomas

Steve K wrote:
> Thomas -
> 
> I am running it that way, and it was a pain to get working ;)  The first 
>  thing you need to consider is that you really wont be able to dual boot 
> since the XP sees the different hardware and need to be reactivated, and 
> after 3 times you have to call microsoft, etc (if there is a way around 
> this I'd love to know).
> 
> Brad was right about the ACPI issue and your blue screening, see this 
> article on how to get around that:
> 
> http://www.vmware.com/support/ws3/doc/ws32_disks8.html#1009931
> 
> The other big trick is that VMWare needs access to your boot partition, 
> or you'll see some crazy "99 99 99 99 99" error from lilo.  To give 
> vmware READ ONLY access to this partition, you need to manually edit the 
>  extent description part of the winXPPro.vmdk file in your vm config's 
> directory.  This is what mind looks like:
> 
> # Extent description
> RW 63 FLAT "winXPPro-pt.vmdk" 0
> RW 14333697 FLAT "/dev/hda" 63
> RW 63 FLAT "winXPPro-pt.vmdk" 63
> RW 1012977 ZERO
> RW 63 FLAT "winXPPro-pt.vmdk" 126
> RDONLY 52693137 FLAT "/dev/hda" 15346863
> RW 63 FLAT "winXPPro-pt.vmdk" 189
> RW 3991617 ZERO
> RW 6108480 ZERO
> 
> I hope this helps,
> -steve
>