Re: Accessible virtual machine: preferably debian

[Tyler Spivey <tspivey@pcdesk.net>]

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I thought I would chime in since I just finished unattended installs of
xp and vista about 6 times. With XP, there is a really handy guide at:
http://unattended.msfn.org
Which walks you through the entire process. For Vista, there is the
windows AIK (Automated installation kit), which is an enormous 900 meg+
download that you must get and install in order to create one
comparitively small (5k or so) xml file that can be put on a flash disk
where vista's setup program can pick it up. One trick that I've learned,
and will share with anyone reading this thread, is that an OCR package
can recognize some of the text on a screenshot taken by VMware. I've
gotten the best results by running the image through "convert -resize
1440", where convert is from the imagemagick package. This is useful if
you get stuck somewhere along the way, but YMMV.
If you need any help, feel free to email me offlist and I'll see what I
can do.
- - Tyler

On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 09:05:49AM -0700, Don Raikes wrote:
> Cheryl,
> 
> I would be interested in knowing how you got xp installed into a virtual machine.
> I am running windows xp pro, and have vmware server installed, but need  a copy of windows 2007 and vista for testing purposes, but have not been successful in getting them installed into virtual machines without requiring sighted help.
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