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vmware
You have seen on my website some
graphic, where you like to know, how the screen dump was made for
:
- Windows XP
Installation
- Windows XP
Professional Logon Screen
- Windows XP
Professional Joining a Domain
- Booting from CD-ROM
- Pressing Print-Screen does NOT allow to copy/paste the Windows
Logon-Window :

- during the installation of an operating system, no other
program to handle graphics can run :

- or during the start up of Windows XP :

- or even when the PC is still in its initial boot process :

This requires the use of an
emulation software :
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VMWARE Workstation 3.0 from www.vmware.com,
offering a 30 day evaluation version. |
which creates on a host-computer (
Windows or Linux) a "virtual system",
in which you can
installed and run a different operating system ( Windows or Linux
).
It is a very powerful program, very easy to install, and it is
very easy to create a "virtual system"
:
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define the virtual
system,
select the OS to be installed,
select as Location a disk with
plenty
of room, because VMWARE
will store here also the file
containing the emulated disk,
and that file can be a few
GByte in size ! |
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- if the OS setup runs from
bootable CD-ROM, insert the CD-ROM of the OS to be installed
- click on "Power-On" of the virtual machine to install
the Operating system
- once the Operating system is installed, install the VMWARE
tools to configure the graphic card.
- done !
and the OS run in the virtual machine !
I used a Windows 2000 Professional
system ( Pentium 733 MHz, 256 MByte Memory) to
create a virtual Windows XP Professional system :

When clicking on the "Power On" , the virtual system
will go through a PC-restart :

and then start the Operating system installed inside the virtual
system : :

Windows XP Professional running inside the VMWARE windows on a
Windows2000 Prof system ,
allowing at ANY TIME to press the PRINT SCRN - key and paste the
captured screen shot into
a graphic program for further processing (in my case : with
PaintShopPro ) :

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These are the devices of
the virtual XP system,
which are emulated or shared with the Host
system.
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Since my Windows 2000 host
system had a network card ( a 3COM 3C905 ),
the virtual system has also a network card installed (emulated as
AMD PCNET ),
which is fully operational and now shared with the host system :
- network communication with the host system
- network communication with ANY other system on the network
Your Host system will have 2 "WMware Virtual Ethernet
Adapters" installed to enable
the network connection with the virtual system :

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