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Originally posted by Mike2
And after a minute it said "Could not find Bootable cd. Please insert a copy of Windows XP Professional and restart the virtual machine to install windows." Or something like that...
of course, it's the same error as if you have an empty hard disk and try to put it in a new computer and boot it, without any floppy disk or CD. The bios (in this case, the bios inside the virtual machine) tells you that error.
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Originally posted by Mike2
What should I becaureful with?
Formating the 20 GB HDD if i install in lan?
My computer slowing down?
I meant that the virtual machine will run slower
Other things apply the same way
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Originally posted by Mike2
By the way, is typical method the method which creates the big file?
it depends on your needs. It is the one I most used, because I only wanted a HD of about 500 Mb to install Win98 and test my own programs. However, when I had windows 98, windows 2000 and linux installed (phisically, not in virtual machine) on the same computer, I configured 2 virtual machines to boot my (previously installed) windows 98 and linux from windows 2000.
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Originally posted by Mike2
I put in 0.3 GB ()
Windows XP in a 300 Mb HD ...
it won't install.
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because as you know, there is too little free space left.
you can have put a bigger size for your virtual disk, but it won't only be albe to grow up to the maximun free space in your real HD
so anyway, you wouldn't have been able to install winxp
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Originally posted by Ddunk
Click Edit Virtual Machine Settings (or whatever it says) and manually select the drive that the disk is in instead of autodetect. (At least that's what I have to do)
Mike2: do that and once you power on your virtual machine, enter the bios and make sure the first device it'll use for booting is the cd.
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Originally posted by Mike2
I was only wondering if I can intall it Windows from our laptop to our computer which has about 20 GB disk space free...
you can install windows in a file having the virtual disk of it, and having that file in a remote computer which has to have an already installed OS and share a folder where you can place that file. You can't install windows directly into a remote computer by using vmware (nor virtualpc)
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