Sacha Chua - tag - vmware https://sachachua.com/blog/tag/vmware/feed/index.xml Emacs, sketches, and life Tue, 09 Jun 2026 02:51:39 GMT en-US daily 1 11ty Rough guide to getting an existing Windows XP partition to boot as a VMWare guest under Linux https://sachachua.com/blog/2008/02/rough-guide-to-getting-an-existing-windows-xp-partition-to-boot-as-a-vmware-guest-under-linux/ Mon, 11 Feb 2008 00:59:48 GMT geek https://sachachua.com/blog/?p=4748 Because I might have to do this again someday…

  1. Install VMWare Server. Use the advanced config to create an image that uses your existing hard disk.
  2. Boot Windows (physically). Back up the current hardware profile.
  3. Boot Linux. Download the SCSI drivers from http://www.vmware.com/download/ws/index.html#drivers ..
  4. Change your GRUB config so that it doesn’t time out. You do _not_ want to accidentally boot your Linux partition while inside Linux.
  5. Start VMWare with your Windows image. Use the recovery console. Mount the SCSI drivers FLP as a floppy and copy the files to c:\windows\system32\drivers .
  6. Boot Windows physically. Use the Control Panel – Add New Hardware dialog to add the VMWare SCSI driver. It might also be a good idea to disable ACPI for the computer
  7. Boot to Linux. Use VMWare to load the Windows image.

The SATA drive complicated things a bit, but I eventually got stuff sorted out. Yay! Next step: Wonder if seamless is worth the trouble…

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