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Date:	Wed, 21 Jun 2006 16:18:27 -0400
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On Wednesday, June 21, 2006 4:14 PM [EST], Charli Li wrote:
>
> VMWare player is only for *PLAYING* VMWare files.  In order to set a
> VM up you gotta get VMWare Desktop or VMWare Server, like I have here
> on my box. Plus, VMs are much, much slower than normal boxes so it's
> not really a red herring if you can't even install the OS on the VM!
> For example, I couldn't even get Windows 2000 Server on the VM to
> even initilize the text-mode setup program (WINNT.EXE)!


Easy way to fix that.

VMX Builder:
http://petruska.stardock.net/Software/VMware.html

http://petruska.stardock.net/Software/Files/VMXBuilderSetup.exe

Will build the player files for you with the hardware/settings you want.

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Brian Bruns
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