Virtualisation and networking

[Roger Oberholtzer]

On Thu, 2008-04-17 at 09:11 -0500, Ben Duncan wrote:
> Actually, I set up a few of these myself. Slackware 12.0 with VMWARE Workstation 
> used to create the Windows Virtual machine.
> 
> After installing Windows Xp Pro and the usual registration cruft, all I have had 
> to do to install on other machines, is put VMPLAYER on them and then copy over 
> the VmWare XP files. When running on the NEW setup for the first time, VMware 
> then asks if this was "copied" or "moved" and I answer that is has been copied 
> and all is well. I have installed several this way and even programs like the 
> "SIMS" should work with no problem.

"After installing Windows Xp Pro" is the issue. How to do this WITHOUT
doing an install? As in, use the existing one on some partition. Or,
failing that, get the existing partition into a vmware image. That is
the trick. For example, with my daughter's acer laptop, the windows
install cd that came with it will not work if it does not detect an acer
computer. vmware does not look like an acer computer. The remaining
options are to snarf the partition where it would do the install, or use
that partition. And the later should allow possible native boots of the
partition as well. 

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Roger Oberholtzer

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