Saturday, July 01, 2006

HOWTO: Windows XP als VMWare Player Image installieren

Quelle: http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=84275
http://www.vmware.com/community/thread.jspa?messageID=321981񎦽

Ziel: mit qemu ein Image für VMWare erstellen und in dies Windows XP installieren

Vorgehen:

  1. qemu installieren: apt-get install qemu
  2. vmware installieren: apt-get install vmware-player vmware-player-kernel-modules
    ( ich habe noch das Paket vmware-player-kernel-modules-2.6.15-25 installiert)
  3. Image erstellen: qemu-img create -f vmdk WindowsXPPro.vmdk 4G Formating 'WindowsXPPro.vmdk', fmt=vmdk, size=2097152 kB
  4. WindowsXPPro.vmx Datei erstellen:
    #!/usr/bin/vmware
    config.version = "8"
    virtualHW.version = "3"
    ide0:0.present = "TRUE"
    ide0:0.filename = "WindowsXPPro.vmdk"
    memsize = "512"
    MemAllowAutoScaleDown = "FALSE"
    ide1:0.present = "TRUE"
    ide1:0.fileName = "auto detect"
    ide1:0.deviceType = "cdrom-raw"
    ide1:0.autodetect = "TRUE"
    floppy0.present = "FALSE"
    ethernet0.present = "TRUE"
    usb.present = "TRUE"
    sound.present = "TRUE"
    sound.virtualDev = "es1371"
    displayName = "Windows XP Pro"
    guestOS = "winxppro"
    nvram = "WindowsXPPro.nvram"
    MemTrimRate = "-1"

    ide0:0.redo = ""
    ethernet0.addressType = "generated"
    uuid.location = "56 4d 3d d1 ed 13 d4 7c-b9 4b a3 c8 d3 af 2a aa"
    uuid.bios = "56 4d 3d d1 ed 13 d4 7c-b9 4b a3 c8 d3 af 2a aa"
    ethernet0.generatedAddress = "00:0c:29:af:2a:aa"
    ethernet0.generatedAddressOffset = "0"

    tools.syncTime = "TRUE"
    ide1:0.startConnected = "TRUE"

    uuid.action = "create"

    checkpoint.vmState = ""

    tools.remindInstall = "TRUE"
    usb.autoConnect.device0 = "path:2/0 autoclean:1"

  5. Windows XP CD mounten
  6. vmplayer starten und Windows installieren :-)

Achtung: der Centrino-Chipsatz hat ein Performance-Problem mit VMWARE, aus diesem Grunde ist folgendes Skript zum Starten des Players hilfreich (erstellen in /usr/bin):

#!/bin/bash
echo 1 > /sys/module/processor/parameters/max_cstate
vmplayer
echo 8 > /sys/module/processor/parameters/max_cstate

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