VMWare Ubuntu host WinXP guest question

[Parijat Mishra]

I seem to remember that using a WinXP image installed on a normal PC has
problems when booted in vmware because of difference in ACPI
implementations. That's probably whats happening here.

On 10/9/05, John DeCarlo <johndecarlo at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 10/8/05, Marc <for.maillists at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Okay here goes. I am using an updated 5.10 (as of now), i have
> > installed and got working VMWare 5.0, i created a default virtual
> > machine and put on it a ghost image of WinXP home. Everything works
> > fine installing WinXP until it runs for the first time. The first
> >
>
> I agree with others who say you should install XP from scratch.
>
> If you can't do that, where is the Ghosted image from? The same PC that
> has Ubuntu on it now?
>
> Also, you did not say what kind of networking you installed with VMWare 5.
> This will make a difference to XP. I think installing NAT is the best for
> most people.
>
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