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AutoCAD 2002 ? ... reminds me of good old times. 
That used to work pretty well in a XP-sp3 VM. It even worked nicely from a BartPE LiveCD.
What you report looks like the Easy-install had failed for some reason.
Last week I installed an XP-sp3 on top of WS 12 and that worked without any problems.
Well - Internet Explorer from that time is more or less unusable - I only use it once to download Firefox.
Try another setup with the "I will install later" option.
Hi,
Welcome at the VMware Communities forum.
Not even sure if you still can install Windows XP from scratch.. but that would be the same on physical hardware.
To answer a few questions:
- as you say there are not enough services running, your install did not work, it really should look like a normal physical install.
- yes your Windows XP still has to be activated in order to work
- you might want to try and run the normal install, not "easy install" or whatever it is called and do the normal OS install steps by hand and then install VMware Tools afterwards.
Not sure if I would want to give a virtual Windows XP network access either.
Workstation Pro sounds as the correct product if using commercially. If using non commercial then VMware Workstation Player might be sufficient.
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Wil
Hi,
Unless something changed in version 12, as soon as the trial runs out VMware Workstation basically just reverts to being VMware Workstation Player.
In that case you can only run virtual machines using the included Player.
If not, then yes you can uninstall Workstation Pro and install Player. Right now however my suggestion would be to keep going with Workstation Pro as it has a few extra features such as the ability to make snapshots. (see VMware Workstation vs VMware Player for the differences - scroll down for the workstation vs player differences)
Non commercial use of VMware Player is still free! If you already bought Workstation then well.. keep Workstation as it has a lot more features.
As for "imaging solutions" well there is VMware Converter which you can use to convert a physical image to a virtual one.
If you however create one from scratch then normally you get a much better behaving Virtual Machine as one that has been converted from physical.
As soon as you give your Windows XP network access it poses a risk. Especially when you start browsing the internet with it or emailing etc..
Yes you are correct that you would normally just infect the Windows XP guest. The problem however is that that guest also has access to your network and a lot of the malware nowadays tends to spread via the internal network. So it would be best NOT to give it access to the network.
You can still share file via the built-in file sharing that's in VMware Tools (Host Guest file sharing) that you can use to share a folder on the host to be accessed by the guest.
For such an outdated OS I tend to give it read only access.
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Wil
AutoCAD 2002 ? ... reminds me of good old times.
That used to work pretty well in a XP-sp3 VM. It even worked nicely from a BartPE LiveCD.
What you report looks like the Easy-install had failed for some reason.
Last week I installed an XP-sp3 on top of WS 12 and that worked without any problems.
Well - Internet Explorer from that time is more or less unusable - I only use it once to download Firefox.
Try another setup with the "I will install later" option.