![]() ![]() (About the bubble notices (which some incorrectly called tooltips): multiple sources expressed frustration that people had been complaining about them for years, and yet VMware had not bothered to provide an option to restrict them. As described in the previous post, the ten-second startup delay gave me time to do several things: first, click in the VM window, so that my clicks and keystrokes would register there, and not in some other random window on the Windows host system second, hit Ctrl-Alt to dispose of the bubble notices that prevented me from seeing what was onscreen and finally choose from the available options. In VMware Player, I clicked on the option to Play virtual machine. With that in place, I was ready to boot the VM and run ATI. The previous post mentions other things to consider (e.g., UEFI vs. ![]() As shown, I chose to delay the WinXP bootup by ten seconds. The latter would specify, permanently, a number of milliseconds (maximum 10000) before proceeding to run the default (i.e., WinXP) installation. After running once, that line would disappear from the. The former would cause a one-time bootup into the BIOS Setup screen. vmx and closed that file: bios.forceSetupOnce = "TRUE" Using Notepad, I verified that that file did not already contain lines like these then I added these two lines to the end of the. The second step was to slow down the VM’s Power-On Self Test (POST) by editing the VM’s. Instead, choose the option to Edit virtual machine settings > Hardware tab > CD/DVD (IDE) > Use ISO image file > browse to and select the ATI ISO > check the Connect at Power On box > OK. In the present case, my first step was to start VMware Player, select the WinXP VM, and don’t start the VM. Another post has information on a similar technique in VirtualBox.Īs detailed in the earlier post, the interloper technique was not highly complicated. In both cases, I was using VMware Workstation Player (referred to here, more simply, as VMware Player). The present post applies that technique to the WinXP that I wanted to convert from virtual to physical (V2P) form. In other words, I had an ATI ISO that already combined the basic ATI software as well as its Plus Pack, and I wanted the simplicity of running that ISO within the VM, to capture the state of the WinXP installation without being part of that installation – much as I would do if I used Rufus to create a bootable USB containing that ATI ISO, and then booted that USB to capture a physical Windows installation while the latter was not running.Ī previous post describes how I used a Lubuntu ISO as this sort of interloper within an Ubuntu VM, to run commands to clone and image that Ubuntu installation when it was not running. In part, I was curious and in part I didn’t want the hassle of installing ATI and then its Plus Pack, nor the clutter of that extra software in the WinXP installation that I was trying to capture in a drive image. ![]() They were not external solutions, as where a Windows program of some sort would treat the entire VM as the object of a conversion procedure, comparable to the conversion of a video file from one format to another.įor present purposes, I was interested in the latter (bootable ISO/USB) approach. In the language of another post, both of these were internal solutions – that is, they ran within the VM. Similar options also existed within the VM world. I could install it into that system and then run it in WinXP or I could boot it from a USB drive and use it to capture the state of the WinXP installation when the latter was not running. If the WinXP installation had been on a physical system, there would have been two ways to run ATI. I hoped that its ability to capture and restore essential drivers would produce a bootable physical installation. To assist in this, I wanted to run Acronis True Image (ATI) 2011 Plus Pack. As described in another post, I wanted to convert a Windows XP virtual machine (VM) to physical form. ![]()
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