[Tfug] Virtualization problem

[Brian Murphy]

VMware Server (not ESX) is free to download and use.

http://vmware.com/download/server/

When you make your VM container, make sure you specify XP.

If it doesn't work with VMware then it probably is the disk.

Brian


Quoting Matthew Patenaude <mnglfiddle at gmail.com>:
> No I'm not confident about the cd itself, so I may look into that. It
> is supposed to XP sp2. If that doesn't work I may look into buying a
> VM. Yes the issue is in the windows installer: I got further once with
> a sp1 cd, but it got a point where it requested a disk with the actual
> service pack on it, and by that time sp1 was no longer available
> online. Thanks for the suggestions.
>
> Matthew
>
>
>
> On 12/30/08, use Pickell <pickell at gmail.com> wrote:
>> What is the version of XP that you are installing? Original release XP CD?
>> XP SP 1? XP SP 2? XP SP 3? I know that I have installed professional with SP
>> 2 without issue. I believe I even had the SP 1 running under virtualbox,
>> until I updated it. Both were to VirtualBox setups on Linux (Ubuntu 7.10 and
>> 8.04), and I have a pre-built image of XP Professional running inside my
>> laptop's Ubuntu 8.10. So I am guessing you maybe using a very old XP media
>> perhaps?
>>
>> Sincerely,
>> Judd Pickell
>>
>> On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 12:47 AM, Robert Hunter <hunter at tfug.org> wrote:
>>
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>>> On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 04:40:09PM +0800, Matthew Patenaude wrote:
>>> > Howdy out there!
>>> >
>>> > It seems as if no matter what virtualization scheme I try, I always end
>>> up
>>> > with the CD booting and then the screen going black and then a blue
>>> screen
>>> > coming up with a message that says session3_initialization_failed.
>>> >
>>> > I am trying to run XP virtualized on Ubuntu 8.10 and am having no
>>> > success
>>> at
>>> > all. I have tried with Virtual Box, and with KVM/Virt-manager, both have
>>> the
>>> > same result. Any ideas?
>>>
>>> Some quick googling indicates that the "session3_yada_yada" error is
>>> specific to the XP installer.  How confident are you that the CD or
>>> CD-drive are not the cause of your problem?  If the error is occurring
>>> before anything is written to disk, you could safely* test booting
>>> directly from the CD.
>>>
>>> Other things you could try:
>>>
>>> 1. Verify the checksum of the ISO image.
>>> 2. Look for kernel messages that indicate I/O errors with the CD drive.
>>> 3. Install from a known good ISO image (assuming you can obtain one).
>>>
>>> *You may want to do a backup beforehand, just to be safe. ;-)
>>>
>>> - --
>>> RH
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