VMware workstation XP professional blue screen of Death after booting

[chetanvpatel]

.gho converted ti vmdk using Symantec ghost, conversion was successful.

vmdk booted and boot screen appears with count down timer. when OS is selected and pressed "enter", blu screen appears and VM restarts.

refer attached log files of VM

[continuum]

The gho image probably was created on a physical machine using IDE-disks.

A XP-system will almost never boot inside a VM when you configure the VM to use IDE-disks.

Here is what to do:

change the disk controller to LSIlogic SCSI while the VM is powered off

next launch VMware Converter and use the option "Configure VM" and select the vmx-file (with the LSI-scsi-controller)

that should adjust the drivers inside the VM.

Caveat: dont know if latest Converter still supports XP-64

If not - pick the oldest Converter version that you can find.