Virtual to Physical how to?

[wally]

Hi,

I'm trying to move XP created in virtual enviroment to physical machine. I was reading on V2P conversion on vmware site http://www.vmware.com/support/v2p/index.html and couldn't get my virtual image to work on HP PC. I am doing sysprep with my custom sysprep.inf for mini setup but that doesn't seem to make any difference. The PC boots goes to safe and other modes prompt, after any selection PC restarts and same prompt again.

Can you please tell me if there's a guide on V2P or something?

Thanks

[wally]

My sysprep.inf:

;SetupMgrTag

[unattended]

OemSkipEula=Yes

InstallFilesPath=C:\sysprep\i386

[GuiUnattended]

AdminPassword=*

EncryptedAdminPassword=NO

AutoLogon=Yes

; AutoLogonCount=1

OEMSkipRegional=1

TimeZone=85

OemSkipWelcome=1

[userData]

ProductKey=*****

FullName="Foo"

OrgName="Bar"

ComputerName=*

[RegionalSettings]

LanguageGroup=1

Language=00000809

[setupMgr]

DistFolder=C:\sysprep\i386

DistShare=windist

[identification]

JoinWorkgroup=WORKGROUP

[Networking]

InstallDefaultComponents=Yes

I'm running sysprep with:

c:\sysprep\sysprep -mini -reseal

Edited October 16, 2009 by wally

[cmonkedo]

I am unfamiliar with what you are doing however it sounds like the system is restarting on a system failure which makes sense with new drivers try pressing f8 just after post and select disable automatic restart on system failure then select your os and it will stop at system failure and post more info regarding this bsod so we can help you further.

Edited October 16, 2009 by cmonkedo

[cluberti]

If you're moving hardware platforms entirely (V2P), you probably want to have sysprep -pnp -mini -reseal to make sure all new devices (PnP or not) are actually detected during mini-setup.