VMWare Server - Use Physical WinXP?

Dave Woyciesjes woyciesjes at sbcglobal.net
Fri Aug 31 16:45:56 UTC 2007


Dave Woyciesjes wrote:
> (Fixed reply/quoting order...)
> 
> Chris Malton wrote:
> 
>  > I know it is possible.  Perhaps if you get VMWare to emulate the drive
>  > as an IDE drive?
>  >
>  > What the VMWare Site suggests is during the install of XP.  Once you
>  > have installed XP, it's difficult to inject the driver.  Setting the
>  > device as IDE (if you can) would be the best bet.  Win XP has the
>  > drivers for that.
>  >
>  > Chris
> 
> 	Unless I missed it, I didn't see anything giving me the option to use 
> it as an IDE disk... I'll have to look some more
> 

	Yep. I feel silly now. Just check on my Windows VMWare server, and 
there is indeed an option to use IDE in a new VM....

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