xp mode on premium version

Kari said:

And what happens when you simply double click that .vcmx file?

flashing cursor in a black box...like a dos prompt

taking a screen shot then I have to go to work soon.

look at my desktop, and you'll see that ini file sitting there. the black box is what I get when clicking like you asked me to do. you'll also see in the 2nd pic, that ini. file is in there with my vm setup. dunno why. i'll read back here when I get to work. thank you kindly

and I selected to "hide" files and desktop ini went away. thx for that.

I never had anything in here at all. I am unsure at this point how I got the disk to start to load. I think I did double click the vmcx at one time and it did start to load. Unsure. I have not tried that again, since I shut vm down and started over with you last request of this last pic

Kari said:

OK.

The screenshot shows the vm (virtual machine) accesses the host(*) drive F. Insert your XP Mode CD to drive F:, or select another drive that has the XP CD in it from the drop down menu, and reboot the vm. XP install should now start.

(*) In virtualization, your Windows 7 system is called a host and the virtual machine you have created a guest.

EDIT: Brink was faster :).

the only thing I didn't try (and can not until tomorrow) is reboot VM. I can scan back through to look for this, er uh but is there a reboot button or function? Thx a bunch. Again....I never had any wording associated with a drive, showing a cd available. Just a blank drive letter...on either of my drives E or F. It acts just like when you install a CD in a drive and the drive don't detect it and you could stick that CD in another machine, or OS and it would work. I have installed this CD a few times to redo a system and it worked just fine, when installing XP from scratch. I still question whether or not this will work. Fingers crossed. THx, DM