Workstation service failures on Win2K VM session

[Tony Magner]

Hi all,
Running VMware workstation 4.5.2 build 8848 on XP host. Imaged a working
Win2K PC and am attempting to run it in a VM. Created the VM and booted into
a network boot disk to access our image server and run DeployCenter.
Successfully downloaded image into VM but upon booting, several services
fail. Seems all have a dependency on the workstation service, which also
fails to load. Nothing specific in the event log entry. Simply fails to
load. Thus I cannot browse the network, in fact, Windows network
functionality is non-existent. Trying to accomplish this on a bridged VM.

Do you think I should've sysprep'd the source PC *before* creating the image
of it? I have not tried that and really don't have much exprience with
sysprep so I'd need help there as well if that is the solution.

Just asking if anyone else has exprienced workstation service failures?

Thanks.

[Dave Taylor]

Post by Tony Magner
Hi all,
Running VMware workstation 4.5.2 build 8848 on XP host. Imaged a
working Win2K PC and am attempting to run it in a VM. Created the VM
and booted into a network boot disk to access our image server and run
DeployCenter. Successfully downloaded image into VM but upon booting,
several services fail. Seems all have a dependency on the workstation
service, which also fails to load. Nothing specific in the event log
entry. Simply fails to load. Thus I cannot browse the network, in
fact, Windows network functionality is non-existent. Trying to
accomplish this on a bridged VM.
Do you think I should've sysprep'd the source PC *before* creating the
image of it? I have not tried that and really don't have much
exprience with sysprep so I'd need help there as well if that is the
solution.
Just asking if anyone else has exprienced workstation service
failures?
Thanks.

See the thread right above yours titled "Converting a "real" disk partition
to a virtual VMware disk partition"

It has some good URLs.