-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I thought I would chime in since I just finished unattended installs of xp and vista about 6 times. With XP, there is a really handy guide at: http://unattended.msfn.org Which walks you through the entire process. For Vista, there is the windows AIK (Automated installation kit), which is an enormous 900 meg+ download that you must get and install in order to create one comparitively small (5k or so) xml file that can be put on a flash disk where vista's setup program can pick it up. One trick that I've learned, and will share with anyone reading this thread, is that an OCR package can recognize some of the text on a screenshot taken by VMware. I've gotten the best results by running the image through "convert -resize 1440", where convert is from the imagemagick package. This is useful if you get stuck somewhere along the way, but YMMV. If you need any help, feel free to email me offlist and I'll see what I can do. - - Tyler On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 09:05:49AM -0700, Don Raikes wrote: > Cheryl, > > I would be interested in knowing how you got xp installed into a virtual machine. > I am running windows xp pro, and have vmware server installed, but need a copy of windows 2007 and vista for testing purposes, but have not been successful in getting them installed into virtual machines without requiring sighted help. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkewERMACgkQTsjaYASMWKSXvwCgmpN/+0uaGAZbn3trJzNncLhi CmsAoJtPT7uq47VbqSR6aKNfMQ25baSE =ZbFo -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
