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Next, you will need either a Windows Professional Install CD, or perhaps a disc image backup of your original CD, as well as the activation key. Proceed through the wizard tool, accepting the default recommended amount of RAM or choosing a larger or smaller amount for your own needs. You will be asked to create or choose an existing virtual drive image to use with your new virtual machine. This is simply a large file in the size of a few gigabytes, 4 GB as is default for Windows that acts as a virtual hard drive for the operating system and any programs to be installed on.
You will be asked to select a virtual hard drive type and whether the virtual disk will be dynamically allocated or of a fixed size in nature. Simply go with the default image type. As for whether to use dynamic or fixed allocation, choose fixed allocation.
You can, again, choose a larger or smaller fixed size drive, however I highly recommend 2 GB at the very least if you choose to go for a smaller virtual hard drive than 4 GB. Continue through the wizard until you have completed the creation of your new virtual machine.
Now, we are finally ready to boot our virtual machine and install Windows Professional. This wizard will help you select your installation CD or CD image. If installing from a CD, select the proper drive on your host computer. If using a CD image instead, browse to the location of the image and select it. Setup will begin to load and will eventually reach a point asking you how you wish to format your blank virtual hard drive.
After the virtual hard drive has been successfully formatted, Setup will then copy installation files onto the virtual hard drive. Once this is complete, Setup will cause the virtual machine to reboot. At this point, you may need to eject the installation CD or unmount the cd image if your virtual machine attempts to boot and run Setup again. The virtual machine must boot from the virtual hard drive to complete setup. Once it beings this process, you may reinsert the install CD or remount the image.
From here, Setup will guide you through the process of setting keyboard layouts, the date and time settings as well as creating an administrator account and joining the virtual machine to a workgroup or domain.
As you can see, there are a lot of steps in doing something like this. But the end-result is that you can support a legacy operating system on newer hardware until other arrangements can be made to upgrade the system. That said, while VMWare is not a free solution it is the most widely used and a great solution to keep your legacy system running for years to come.
For those users on a budget, in my next article I'll cover a free alternative, Virtual Box, including how to convert an existing. Have a question? Join our community of pros to take part in the discussion! You'll also find all of our automation courses at TheAutomationSchool. Sponsor and Advertise: Get your product or service in front of our 70K followers while also supporting independent automation journalism by sponsoring or advertising with us!
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