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Click to view jamng's profile Enthusiast 63 posts since
Mar 7, 2007
I have 1.25GB allocated for Windows XP when I try to install Vista. When I was getting to 64%, it would crash and force itself to rollback. After your update-fix instructions, it just sits there at the loading screen. It never gets to a crash and rollback.
Click to view pauljude's profile Lurker 1 posts since
Oct 12, 2007

Here is where I get stuck. After following the migration instructions to the letter, I get to the final stage to fix the shutdown issue. I follow the instructions by starting up my Wix XP Pro CD (this is a full retail version) and I choose Upgrade for an installation type but the screen for the non-GUI nevers comes up properly. Instead, I get a non-GUI screen that prompts me to run Windows XP Professional or Windows XP Professional Setup. If I hit F5, I'm taken to a screen where I have several options such as booting into SafeMode, etc. I never get the non-GUI screen that allows me to change the HAL.

Other than this problem, the conversion worked fine and everything works smoothly but I would like to fix the shut down problem and have two processors running.

Any help, would be great appreciated.

Paul

Click to view PierreC's profile Lurker 3 posts since
Feb 12, 2007

Did you sort out your problem ?

Now that Parallels has released its 4.0 version, I know for sure that the answer given by Andreas and related to the inexistent support of multi processor / multi core by Windows XP was not the appropriate one.

With Parallels 4.0 and XP Home, I can get as much as 4 cores (I run an "old" Mac Pro with 2 double core processors). With VMware Fusion, even in the latest version 2.0.1, I can only get 1 core (two processors are visible under the Device Manager, and the HAL seems in the good version (MultiProcessor ACPI) but only one is actually accepting threads).

Would anyone have an idea how to get Fusion work in multi-processor mode with XP Home Edition ?

Thanks in advance for your help,

Pierre

Click to view etung's profile Guru 11,086 posts since
Oct 15, 2006
There's a distinction between cores and CPUs. Andreas pointed out that XP Home recognizes only a single CPU. For historical reasons, we present single core CPUs to the guest, so you will only be able to use one core.
Click to view PierreC's profile Lurker 3 posts since
Feb 12, 2007

Thank you for the answer.

But, for which reason in this case would I be able to see the 4 cores (in this case 2 CPU's of 2 cores each) in Parallels with the same OS ?

Does your answer mean that the only possiblity for me to benefit from the reliability of Fusion with 2 processors is to move up to XP Professional release ?

Pierre

Click to view etung's profile Guru 11,086 posts since
Oct 15, 2006
But, for which reason in this case would I be able to see the 4 cores (in this case 2 CPU's of 2 cores each) in Parallels with the same OS ?

They're probably presenting a quad-core CPU to the guest.

Does your answer mean that the only possiblity for me to benefit from the reliability of Fusion with 2 processors is to move up to XP Professional release ?

Currently, yes. We know people would like to use more than one core per virtual CPU to get around this Windows licensing issue. However, VMware policy is to not comment on unannounced features/timelines/products so I can't say anything beyond that.
Click to view PierreC's profile Lurker 3 posts since
Feb 12, 2007
Thanks very much.
Click to view dp_fusion's profile Hot Shot 285 posts since
Feb 23, 2007
These instructions are quite old now and there have been updates to Fusion in the time since. Are these instructions still valid or has something changed?
Click to view lasse1234's profile Novice 6 posts since
Jun 16, 2009
That seems to work, except from when I selected my multiprocessor HAL the Windows installation continues and says it can't find any harddisks!

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