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. <div>On 10/9/05, John DeCarlo <<a href="mailto:johndecarlo@gmail.com">johndecarlo@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">On 10/8/05, Marc <<a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:for.maillists@gmail.com" target="_blank"> for.maillists@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <div> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: rgb(204,204,204) 1px solid">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 </blockquote></div> 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. -- John DeCarlo, My Views Are My Own -- ubuntu-users mailing list <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com"> ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users" target="_blank">http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users </a> </blockquote></div>