![]() I did have trouble with VMware Converter recognizing a Norton Ghost backup of the XP machine, so I tried creating an image of my Windows 7 installation. I tried setting up a test Windows XP machine from scratch and it all went well. VMware Player install on the Windows 7 64-bit machine went well - as did the Vmware Converter install. It's basically donationware and I'll certainly be donating!)Ģ. I have no idea why that BCD got corrupted in the first place, but, it's fixed now. I can boot into either system with no unusual problems. Then, I just did a cold Safe Boot into that system, checked it out and it all works fine now. It detected and installed the XP system I had on the same machine. All I needed to do was install it and edit my BCD file (part of the Windows 7 install) to install a "new" operating system. I downloaded and used EasyBCD 2.0.2 from NeoSmart (). I am presently in the process of backing up the Windows XP machine so I can use VMware Converter to transfer it to run under VMware Player on the 64-bit side.ġ. I have solved the "disappearing XP install" challenge and have successfully installed VMware Player on my Windows 7 Professional 64-bit system. Senior Instructor Emeritus, Management Information SystemsĪ quick update on this interesting challenge. Thanks for your interest, help and advice. My email address is in the original post. So, if you wish to continue it off-line, just let me know. I don't know if this chain is helpful in this forum or not. Hmmm.? So, I have installed a clean Win XP setup and will try installing Ghost and recovering from that. VMware Converter won't recognize the Ghost file. I have tried to use Norton Ghost to restore a recent backup of the Win XP machine to the VM machine and am making progress but have not quite got there. All that did was mess up my video drivers and multi-screen set-up. I have tried to restore from both Win XP and Win 7 install disks - all to no avail. The mysterious disappearance of my Win XP boot process may well not be related to the VMware install however, I noticed it shortly after doing that install. It's been an interesting day - lots of "recovery processes". I now am thinking that I should set up a VM machine for Windows XP SP3 as a brand new machine and then run a System Restore into it from my Windows XP side - it's a separate partition on the HDD. No matter - it boots to the Windows 7 side. I have been selecting Safe Mode but have tried Start Normally and Last Known Good Configuration. The choice is there but, if I select it, I get a very brief (less than 1 second) BSD and it automatically reboots, does a brief POST, eventually gets to Windows Boot Manager and then presents the Advanced Boot Options. However, I am now mired in a curious little "challenge" in that my Windows Boot Manager no longer will boot into the Windows XP SP3 machine. So, I booted into My windows 7 64-but machine and installed both VWare Player 3.1.2 and VMware Converter 4.3. I downloaded the VMware CPU ID utility and my AMD chip passed - it's an Athlon 64 3800+ Rev E3 and apparently supports longmode operation. Thanks a bunch for your helpful suggestions. Thanks to anyone who can help me with these questions? If you prefer to email me my email address is Ron Murch. If I set up Player to run in the 64-bit Windows 7 Professional environment, will it run 32-bit versions of Windows XP and Ubuntu? If I set up Player to run in the 32-bit Windows XP SP3 environment, can I install 64-bit OS versions and run them as 64-bit?ĥ. Are all hardware devices shareable among all virtual machines under Player?Ĥ. ![]() Once set up, can I migrate the other Windows environment to VMware Player without losing any applications? Using vCenter Converter?ģ. Is the 32-bit version more robust than the 64-bit version?)Ģ. Which version of Windows would be the best choice to set up VMware Player? (i.e. The key "architectural" questions I have are:ġ. However, the 64-bit side has more capability. The drivers are more robust on the 32-bit side. ![]() I'd like to set up VMware in one of the machines and migrate the other one to run as a virtual machine. There are two monitors and there is plenty of HDD space available on 2 drives. The basic PC is based on an AMD Athlon 3800+ processor (about 5 years old) so no multi-core capabilities. I wish to install VMware Player on a PC currently set up as dual-boot with both Windows XP SP3 32-bit and Windows 7 Professional 64-bit. I'm (very) new to VMware and have found that the initial documentation does not help me with some fundamental architectural decisions.
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