Getting going with XPe Eval and virtual PC

[Robin Imrie]

Hi,

I have installed the evaulation version of XPe and with the aid of a
tutorial i had started to create my os. In addition to this I decided to
make my eval system a virtual PC client. The problem I have is getting my
VPC cliet to start up..

This is what i did

1) created a Virtual PC client, and booted it up using disk 1 of the XPe
install and used WinPE to run tap.exe (output transferd to network share on
my pc) and create a 700Mb partition whch was set to active.

2) created my XPe image (via tutorial)

3) copyed the files to the Virtial PC client hard disk via WinPE and network
shares. and xcopy

4) rebooted the virtual PC and it failed to boot.

I then created a SPI file using disk Manger to setup my partitiion and
copyed this file to a bootable DVD which was then used to boot my VPC and
transferd the disk image to the hard disk. Thsi time the VPC booted with out
any probs and I had a working XPe running..

The big question is why could I not get this working the fisrt time?

Robin

 

[Sean Liming \(eMVP\)]

A different solution is to create a VPC with XP Pro. Install the Virtual
Machine extentions. Run TAP in this VPC so you can get the full Target
Analyzer results.

Create a second VPC for the target. Mount the targets virtual hard drive as
a second hard drive to the XP Pro VPC - you can then easily drag and drop
the image using the XP Pro VPC.

Regards,

Sean Liming
www.sjjmicro.com / www.seanliming.com
XP Embedded Book Author - XP Embedded Advanced, XP Embedded Supplemental
Toolkit

 

[Robin Imrie]

Thanks for the suggestion. I will give that a go.

So how does one deploy an image to a 2nd PC without dual booting it?

regards

Robin Imrie

 

[Sean Liming \(eMVP\)]

There are many methods:

1. WinPE/SDI
2. Swap the hard drive - use USB to IDE
3. Winternal's Remote Recover

Regards,

Sean Liming
www.sjjmicro.com / www.seanliming.com
XP Embedded Book Author - XP Embedded Advanced, XP Embedded Supplemental
Toolkit

 

[jimt]

I successfully used WinPE and "xcopy /S /E /Q /H /K". This seems easier
than SDI for a one-off image. I wonder if there are any disadvantages to
using xcopy instead of SDI...

 

[Sean Liming \(eMVP\)]

Only if you try to do xcopy under DOS.

Regards,

Sean Liming
www.sjjmicro.com / www.seanliming.com
XP Embedded Book Author - XP Embedded Advanced, XP Embedded Supplemental
Toolkit