VMWare 4.5 and ACPI

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I'm in the process of creating an image of XP SP1 for our company. It is a single image that incorporates 2 desktops (Dell GX240 & GX260) and 3 laptop (Dell D800, Toshoba 6000 Series) models. The image was built on the master PC, a GX240.

Image worked great on the desktops and under VMWare 4.5.

Initially had an issue after creating the image and deploying to laptops where the system would BSOD. Fixed that by changing the HAL on the master imaging PC from Uniprocessor to ACPI.

Now the image works great on all physical machines, but only gets to a blinking cursor on the POST when used under VMWare. I understand VMWare has had issues with the ACPI HAL, but thought 4.x fixed those.

I cannot go back to the uniprocessor HAL, but would like this image to work under VMWAre as well for our developers.

Any ideas?