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Boxes running 2000 Server, 2003 Server, 2008 Server and XP Pro, all of which can be setup with no Pagefile on the Boot partition.

Myth: At least part of the Windows Pagefile need to be on the boot partition.

Whether a page file is necessary in a virtual XP machine may be discussed elsewhere.

See Shrink Qcow2 Disk Files for information on reducing the size of your *.qcow2 virtual disk files.

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If you remove the realtek network adapter, you may be prompted to reinstall the virtio network driver on reboot.

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Reboot the XP VM to ensure that your virtio drivers are working without issue.

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You may be prompted to install the virtio storage driver again.

Add a new hard disk, and in the lower section, choose the original IDE disk file.

Delete the primary IDE disk (doesn't actually delete it, it just removes it from being used by the VM).

Delete the second (virtio) disk and remove it (it's not needed).

Drivers are in V:\viostor\WXp\ (it looks like only x86 is currently available, as of ).

Go through the same process for the virtio scsi controller.

Finish the driver installation, click Continue when asked if you want to install an unsigned driver. Point the drivers to V:\NetKVM\XP\ (where is either amd64 or x86). Click next and verify its looking for the ethernet controller.

Go back to the "found new hardware wizard".

Locate the virtio iso, right-click on it and click Select drive letter & mount.

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Leave this window open, you need to mount the virtio driver iso first.

The "found new hardware wizard" should appear.

Add a hard disk, select qcow2 (faster creation than raw) as the format and virtio as the bus.

Add an ethernet device, and select virtio as the model.

In the Proxmox web admin, click on the VM, and then on it's Hardware tab.

You may need it outside of this original setup.

Note: It's a good idea to leave this iso stored inside your VM.

Download the latest virtio-win iso from the Fedora Project into the Windows XP VM.

Download and install wincdemu inside the XP guest.

Boot the XP VM and verify that Internet access works.

These are both recognized by default on Windows XP.

Build your Windows XP VM using the IDE disk driver and the rtl8139 NIC driver.

Below are (rough) steps to switching to the Red Hat virtio drivers in a Windows XP guest. The IDE driver works OK for locally stored VMs, but performance will degrade significantly when accessing disk files over the network. When you build an XP guest VM, chances are you use the IDE driver to get up and running right away. Use these notes at your own risk and always take backups of your VM's before attempting any system level modifications like these. IMPORTANT: I've tried to be as accurate as possible, but I'm doing a "brain dump" very quickly.

Then use Winimage to put the drivers for LSI20320-R controller in a floppy image “LSILogic.flp”.Changing your drive from IDE/SATA to VIRTIO may causing blue dead screen Windows, so please make a Backup first!

LSI Logic Controller Driver can be found at or you can directly downloaded from symmpi_SCSI_WinXP_P12_12605.zip and unpack it. Do not forget that after completion you need to unmount the ISO and FLP images and then install the VMware Tools. The installation can now be continued as usual.

After that press “Z” for “additional equipment” and few times “Enter”.Ĥ. Using “VMware Infrastructure client” mount the driver disk. Now the time for the downloaded floppy disk image has came. Press F6 to be able to upload the downloaded driver.ģ. As soon the setup start & windows in the small blue bar at the bottom mention to press F6 for additional SCSI driver. Important, don’t map the SCSI driver floppy image yet.Ģ. Power on the Virtual Machine with the Windows XP CD mounted. To approach the installation after downloading the driver mentioned above:ġ. You can download the required driver from here The cause of the problem is that Windows XP require the SCSI Driver while the installation is running. Press the F3 key to cancel the installation This may require you to run a diagnostic or installation program by the manufacturer. Make sure that all hard drives are turned on and properly connected to the computer, and that all hardware settings for the hard disk drives controller are correct. Installation failed no hard drives found.

Vmware tools for windows xp 64 how to#

Again and again the question about how to install Windows XP on VMware ESX platform pop up? The fact that VMware uses a separate SCSI controller for the virtual machines and that causes windows error message similar to the following to appear on the screen while windows copying its files during the installation: