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By: Rod

Rod — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 09:29:43 +0000

Lee, i get the same issue.

I've followed the instructions. I start XP in a virtual machine, i manage to get grub menu then i select Windows XP and it says immediately “Starting up…” then nothing happens. well all i can see is the CPU going flat out..

I can't find a solution for this. Anyone got ideas?

By: Rod

Rod — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 02:29:43 +0000

Lee, i get the same issue.

I can't find a solution for this. Anyone got ideas?

By: Lee

Lee — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 11:14:11 +0000

Great guide, easy to follow! But I’ve run into a problem. When trying to boot the vm I select Windows XP at the GRUB menu and it immediately says ‘Starting up…’ but beyond that it never proceeds. I have installed the SCSI driver in Windows and verified my Windows partition isn’t mounted by checking the output of ‘mount’. Any thoughts what I should check? Is there anyone else out there experiencing this problem?

By: Michael

Michael — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 01:15:32 +0000

Anyone know how I can get the same thing to work but on an XP host rather than linux. I’ve followed these instructions but when booting XP under the VM I get a blue stop screen part-way through the windows load:

*** STOP: 0×0000007B (0xF78AE524, 0xC0000034, 0×00000000, 0×00000000)

By: Kevin

Kevin — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 03:10:59 +0000

Does anyone have a solution for XP-64? The VMware SCSI driver does not work with it.

By: nino

nino — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 10:39:22 +0000

Excellent guide tho ive notived having vmware tools installed under windows slows the login down really badly

By: Yousef Ourabi

Yousef Ourabi — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 05:15:16 +0000

I”ve never experimented with that, but I believe you could also create a bootable floopy with the Windows bootloader and put that first in the boot-device priority via the VMWare bios…

Just a thought.

By: loligo

loligo — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 22:11:34 +0000

Thank you very much!

About “2- do you know if there are some way to make bootable only the win partition, without including GRUB in virtualizated machine too? Using the partition (sda1) instead the full disk (sda) don’t work…”:

You can simply rewrite the MBR. In fact VMWare had alreay generated a virtual MBR named your-disk-name-br.vmdk. So you can use tools to rewrite the MBR, such as ‘fixmbr’ and ‘fixboot’.

By: bill

bill — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 17:25:54 +0000

excellent guide. I’m running 64-bit XP and the Windows hardware installation wizard informs me that “the specified location does not contain a compatible software driver…” and it further admonishes me to “…make sure it is designed to work with Windows for x64 systems.” The VMWare site seems only to direct the user to the driver referenced in this article.

anyone else have this problem?

By: Simon Ewins

Simon Ewins — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 23:02:00 +0000

Fantastic tutorial. I completed all steps and everything was very clear. I got to the click ‘Finish”, no issues. However when I then clicked ‘Close” I keep getting this error.

Error opening virtual machine “/home/simon/vmware/XP/XP.vmx”: The configuration file for this virtual machine cannot be found. It might be missing from the virtual machine directory, or the path specified to access this virtual machine might be incorrect.

When I look in the vmware directory there is nothing, no XP sub-directory and no files.

I don’t think I have missed any steps. Everything felt perfect but no luck. Do you have any suggestions that can solve this (or even explain it) for me?

Thanks much, in advance,
Simon

By: Sid

Sid — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 12:57:29 +0000

I solved the issue (sort of) by downloading supergrub and leaving a bootable CD in my DVD drive. Sort of a stop gap and I’m not really happy about it, but it allows me to boot to my native XP which is where most of my crap was anyway and allows me to reboot into XP if I’m gaming or doing something that just doesn’t work well in a VM.

Thanks Yousef,
sid.

By: Sid

Sid — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 18:01:13 +0000

I’ve been kicking this one around for a while.

I’ve installed the SCSI drivers in step 1 and when I start my VM I get a Grub Error 21. I’m assuming it can’t find my /dev/sdb and is erroring out.

Any way to boot to the first SATA disk (/dev/sda) if that’s where my grub is installed?

Thanks,
sid.

By: Roger

Roger — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 19:34:13 +0000

To-notch! Your instructions in Part One regarding the scsi drivers did the trick.

Much appreciated!

By: Bob Burroughs

Bob Burroughs — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 22:22:53 +0000

Hi,

VMware Workstation costs $189! So I tried to use
Applications->System Tools->VMware Server Console.
The screens are almost identical, except on the last
screen–the one where you click Finish.

There’s a text box for the name of a ‘disk file’. It’s
primed with .vmdk.

What’s a .vmdk file?

By: badsez

badsez — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 22:40:28 +0000

when i tried to setup and boot XP from Vista, i got an error message
Operation on file “\\.\PhysicalDrive0″ failed.

can you help me please.
ref: http://communities.vmware.com/thread/119210?tstart=0

By: yourabi

yourabi — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 05:54:18 +0000

Pak,

1) Unfortunately OEM installs see this as two different computers.

2) You can create a boot-floppy image that boots straight into XP and then configure vmware to boot from this first and then the virtual disk 2nd.

By: Pak

Pak — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 16:35:11 +0000

thanks for the answer

1- I have OEM winXP… it ask me to activate both VM and physical.. I’d like to solve it in “legal” way… otherwise I’ll look for turnaround…

2- do you know if there are some way to make bootable only the win partition, without including GRUB in virtualizated machine too? Using the partition (sda1) instead the full disk (sda) don’t work…

thanks again

Pak

By: yourabi

yourabi — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 20:20:37 +0000

Big, and Pak: Activation is a bit of a tricky point . If you can through work or school, or some other *legal* way, use an enterprise edition cd.

Pax: If I understand and you are asking what will happen if you accidentally boot into the linux partition you are currently running — bad things will happen — mostly with the potential to corrupt your filesystem. I would stop the VM right away.

Hope this helps.
Yousef

By: Pak

Pak — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 17:19:57 +0000

Great guide!! thanks

only 2 questions:

1- what about winXP activation? It will continue to prompt me to activate it every time I switch between XP VM and XP physical?

2- I have virtualizated MBR too… what will happen if I’ll make start the Linux VM inside the Linux physical?

greetings