BOOT ERROR

[Bluenose]

Hi,

I hope that someone may be able to help me with this one?

I have a VM that is already created. However when attempting to power on, it almost immediately halts with the good old BSOD. The OS in use is an adapted XP Embedded.

From what I have figured out, by scouring may forums online, is that I may be missing some drivers that the VM requires? To this end, what I have done is added the Virtual Disk to another VM that is fully working so that I may view the contents of the disk. My question is:

Can anyone advise me as to what drivers I could add to this disk in order to hopefully get it to boot? And how do I do it?

I have been working ont his project now for some time and could really do with the help.

Thank you all and I look forward to reading your advice.

Bev

[a_p_]

What VMware product are we taking about here?

I have a VM that is already created. However when attempting to power on, it almost immediately halts with the good old BSOD. The OS in use is an adapted XP Embedded

Who created the VM and on which product/version? Has this VM been working before? Most likely the disk controller drivers are the cause of the BSOD (did you get s.th. like inaccessible boot device?) You need to check which controller (IDE, LSI-Logic, BusLogic) is configured and inject the appropriate drivers to your image.

You could also try to use the Converter, however I don't know if it will work with the embedded XP.

André

[Bluenose]

Andre,

Thak you for your reply,

The VM I have has been created from a Ghost Image that was created for a phisical machine. the image in question is working 100% on a Many, phisical machine. I created my VM bydeploying the Gjost image directy to a VM. this process completes without error.

I Have doen this procedure before with different images and never had a problem until now.

Regards

Bev

[a_p_]

Did you already try VMware Converter to convert the Ghost image directly into a virtual machine?

André

[Bluenose]

Andre,

Sadly the converter does not recognise the .gho file as a recognised format? it recognises other Backup formats but not this one?

I have attempted to convert the VM that i had allready created but this made no difference as it still gives the BSOD at the same point?

Bev