VmWare Issue, WinXP Doesnt Load up

Hi guys i have this issue with VWmare and cant seem to work out how to resolve it can somebody help please? check attachment of screen shot

Yes everything is ok working ok

It is in the right order

I set it to both and still wont wok

There is something wrong with the O/s(xp) so on monday im back at uni ill get the technician who created the vmware for us . Thanks for your advice and help

Merty said:

Hi guys i have this issue with VWmare and cant seem to work out how to resolve it can somebody help please? check attachment of screen shot

This one is easy to fix -- this screen simply shows your VM can't find any device which is bootable or has an OS on it.

In other words The VM can't find your boot device.

so

1) Have you actually INSTALLED the Guest OS

2) have you set the Virtual BIOS to boot from the correct device. That's the BIOS you can get when powering on your Guest OS. It's functionally equivalent to the BIOS when starting the MAIN computer

Remember for all intents and purposes a Virtual Machine is a separate computer with its own (Virtual) hardware and Bios.

In the vm settings (on the Host machine) you can set the VM to open the Virtual BIOS at the VM's next boot --if you don't do this using the traditional Func key probably won't work as the boot process will start too quickly for you to enter the correct key.

Enc screenshot -- note the option in my screenshot is greyed out here as I'm already in the GUEST OS. If you enable the option BEFORE powering on the guest the option will be available (not greyed out) and you'll boot straight into the virtual BIOS where you can change Boot order of devices etc etc.



Cheers
jimbo