[ale] vmware and W2K v. WXP

James P. Kinney III jkinney at localnetsolutions.com
Wed May 8 15:29:10 EDT 2002


I would almost put money on the problem being the permission structure
on XP. Unless vmware was _built_ for XP, you will probably need to give
the user full administrator rights in order to directly access the
hardware layer. 

Trashing XP is a juicy idea, though.

Why not put Linux on as the main OS and run Vmware to guest in the XP?
It's a sneaky way to start a migration, but it will solve the problem.

On Wed, 2002-05-08 at 14:22, Ty Tidrick wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
> I have inherited a problem, and I am a newby with Linux.
> 
> I have an app that run on a box with vmware and Win2K, but will not run on another box with WinXP.
> 
> One suggestion was to rip out WXP and install Win2K, but the computer's owner doesn't want to do that.
> 
> So, where do I look for info on making vmware compatible with WXP?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Ty
> 
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