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Shook4Brains
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‎12-12-2007 01:18 PM

Can XP embedded and/or WePOS be a guest OS on VI3.5?

We are a software development firm that does work revolving around "modified" point of sales systems. I'm like to setup several of these for the dev guys to test on but I'm wondering if I can create a guest running XP embedded. Anyone done this yet?

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TomHowarth
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‎12-12-2007 02:19 PM

I can't see any reason why not, you may have to do a P2V using VMware Converter, but technically XPe is only a cut down version of standard XP. create your guest as XP guests and when converting use the LSI drivers to get them running, it may be eaiser to utilise VMware Server at this can have a IDE disk in the Guest, ESX only supports SCSI disks for guests.

from a development point of view the guests created on VMware server would minic your real world devices better.

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Shook4Brains
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‎12-12-2007 02:25 PM

Thanks, Tom. I'll give a whirl and will post the results.

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PWILSON
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‎12-18-2008 12:26 PM

I have found the following solution on the net. I have not yet tried it out. Has anyone else tried this?

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