Windows nt on VMWORKSTATION 10

[johnnyGalvin123]

Hi, I have spent days trying to sort this out, I am using Workstation 10. I have a windows nt ghost image.

1) I SELECT CREATE NEW VM AND CONFIGURE IT

2) POWER UP THE VM IT FINDS THE GHOST IMAGE AND LOADS THE OPERATING SYSTEM.

3) WHEN I GO TO START,,  I GET THE BSOD  AND IT TELLS ME THAT IT CANNOT FIND THE BOOT DRIVE.

AND THROWS UP ALL TYPES OF ERRORS.....

The ghost image is perfect loaded it on to an old NT pc I had,, and all worked perfect.

I Know that this has something to do with the sci bus / lsi logic parallel.

I read everywhere and look at youtube videos . but the change type option never appears to me under my settings section.

I used both creation setup types Typical and the costume options but of no avail

They say to add a small hard drive and set it up as scsi 1.0 and that a new bus should appear.

Does not happen for me.

Do you change it someware in the .vmx text file

Has workstation 10 got the software to make this change.

Is there any video that shows workstation 10 bsod and how to get out of it. using the above methods.

I have looked at the "vmware info?id=43" solution looks pretty straight forward but the option don't appear in my system.

I have 2 exsi servers on site but I develop all the machines first on workstation.

I am really confused and this has never happened before with VMware.

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As this is my first post any help would be much appreciates and I would like to thank everyone in advance

johnny

[RDPetruska]

Two things I can think of:

1.  I believe that Windows NT 4 needs to be at SP6 to run in a VM.  Make sure you have that Service Pack level.

2.  If you are creating the VM from a ghost image of an existing machine, as opposed to a fresh install from the NT4SP6 install CD, try running the VMware Converter (free) and performing step 2 - reconfiguration - on the VM after the ghost restore.  Also, you can search the web for the "Ultimate P2V" project, which had some utilities which can also do the required changes for you.

[continuum]

Hi Johnny
Nowadays finding the tools to P2V a Windows NT system are hard to find.
Do you have a BartPE LiveCD ?
Then look out for the plugin that Rob suggested.
If this is an important project call me via skype - I can help you with this.

Ulli

[johnnyGalvin123]

Hi thanks to all,

Starting to work on this,, I understand the steps I need to start with

The one thing that is bugging me at the moment is

Just aside from the NT Installation,,

What would prevent me from being able to change type scsi controller to LSI Logic under settings in VMware workstation 10

The  info?id=43 makes it look easy.

The vm youtube videos make it easy

But I just do not have the change type tab under my settings

do you need workstation pro or something

Sorry about going off track but this is an issue I want to understand before moving forward.

johnny

[RDPetruska]

That has never been in the GUI - you have to manually edit the vmx file by hand to make that change.

[voidp]

Continuum's replies to this thread may provide some insight: Change descriptor file content within big vmdk.