Windows XP Embedded and Virtual PC

[Yeghia]

Hi All

I'm new in this area so sorry for such a simple question
I just generated XP Embedded image with its directories and I wanna know how
to put this into Virtual PC or VMWare.
I couldn't find it in a documentation


Thanks in advance,

Regards
Yeghia

 

[KM]

Yeghia,

Hope you have created your image based on the PQM output from TAP run on
Virtual PC.

A couple of good tutorials for you:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dnxpesp1/html/Proto.asp
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dnembedded/html/embedded04232004.asp

You may also find this search very helpful to you:
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=...a=group=microsoft.public.windowsxp.embedded.*

KM

 

[KM]

Or, use Brad's Virtual PC 2004 Macro component:
http://www.xpefiles.com/a_file.cfm?custid=Development Utilities&fileid=vpc.zip&groupName=Main

KM

 

[Chuck Chopp]

Hi All

I'm new in this area so sorry for such a simple question
I just generated XP Embedded image with its directories and I wanna know how
to put this into Virtual PC or VMWare.
I couldn't find it in a documentation

I ran TAP in a VMware v4.5.x virtual machine and prepared a couple of
components to include in a XPe image. Then I allocated a 256 MB SDI disk
image file in XPe studio using the SDI loader. This creates the equivalent
of a VMware virtual disk file, except that your Windows host system mounts
it as if it were a physical hard drive instead of a virtual machine mounting
it. Have the XPe studio write out your completed XPe image to the SDI disk
[you have to assign it a disk drive letter in the disk manager in Computer
Management]. Once that has been done, go back and remove the drive letter
in the disk manager and configure VMware to have a guest system that boots
from a raw physical disk and tell it to use the physical disk that your host
system uses to represent the SDI disk. It is all smooth sailing from there.

If you need any of the components that I created for VMware, email me and
let me know and I'll zip them up and send them to you. I put in the VMware
video driver, the BUS Logic SCSI adapter driver and a few other
VMware-specific things such as the component that was built by running the
TAP utility in a VMware guest system.


HTH,

Chuck
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