Guest pilot Posted July 21, 2007 Posted July 21, 2007 am currently running XP Home as the OS for my computer, but need to install XP Pro in order to get IIS as this of course does not come with the home version of XP. So I have installed VMware 5.5 in a folder on the hard drive and have extracted the files. Fine so far! Then have created a new virtual machine and installed XPPro. On starting XP pro from within the VMware control panel the first time this appears to work and it opens and runs Pro as it should. However if I close this down and start XP Pro up again either on the second or third time it takes an age to load up and when it does I cant find the IIS connection. If I go to the Run command and type MCC and add IIS there it just hangs and just crashes. Do you have any idea why this could be happening and if so any way I can fix this. If there some kind of time out issue with IIS or is it somthing else? Any ideas would be helpfull at this time.
Guest Ken Blake, MVP Posted July 21, 2007 Posted July 21, 2007 Re: XP Pro with VMware On Sat, 21 Jul 2007 03:33:11 -0700, pilot <sales@contacts-development.com> wrote: > am currently running XP Home as the OS for my computer, but need to > install XP Pro in order to get IIS as this of course does not come > with the home version of XP. > So I have installed VMware 5.5 in a folder on the hard drive and have > extracted the files. Fine so far! > > Then have created a new virtual machine and installed XPPro. On > starting XP pro from within the VMware control panel the first time > this appears to work and it opens and runs Pro as it should. However > if I close this down and start XP Pro up again either on the second > or > third time it takes an age to load up and when it does I cant find > the IIS connection. > > If I go to the Run command and type MCC and add IIS there it just > hangs and just crashes. > Do you have any idea why this could be happening and if so any way I > can fix this. If there some kind of time out issue with IIS or is it > somthing else? Any ideas would be helpfull at this time. I don't know anything about VMware, but why don't you simply upgrade from Home to Professional? -- Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP Windows - Shell/User Please Reply to the Newsgroup
Guest PA Bear Posted July 21, 2007 Posted July 21, 2007 Re: XP Pro with VMware VMware Support Forums http://www.vmware.com/community/ -- ~Robear Dyer (PA Bear) MS MVP-Windows (IE, OE, Security, Shell/User) AumHa VSOP & Admin; DTS-L.org pilot wrote: > am currently running XP Home as the OS for my computer, but need to > install XP Pro in order to get IIS as this of course does not come > with the home version of XP. > So I have installed VMware 5.5 in a folder on the hard drive and have > extracted the files. Fine so far! > > Then have created a new virtual machine and installed XPPro. On > starting XP pro from within the VMware control panel the first time > this appears to work and it opens and runs Pro as it should. However > if I close this down and start XP Pro up again either on the second > or > third time it takes an age to load up and when it does I cant find > the IIS connection. > > If I go to the Run command and type MCC and add IIS there it just > hangs and just crashes. > Do you have any idea why this could be happening and if so any way I > can fix this. If there some kind of time out issue with IIS or is it > somthing else? Any ideas would be helpfull at this time.
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