Sunday, February 07, 2010

The solution

You will find the solution as soon as you start to learn to live with it.
Acceptance will come.

Thursday, February 04, 2010

SysPrep Vmware converter

1. download the sysprep for the respectively OS
2. run vmware converter, take note of the sysprep directory
3. extract the content of *.cab to the sysprep directory
4. run setupmgr.exe to generate the configuration template
5. run vmware converter, ensure generate new sid is checked
6. run the vmware image
7. perform a login, attempt to activate windows on internet(should see sysprep dialog)
8. perform a system restart

Somehow things did not work well. Windows refuses to accept my keys.
And I hit the following site.

http://surana.wordpress.com/2008/11/04/windows-activation-problem/

It directed to the following microsoft site to reset the key.

http://www.microsoft.com/genuine/selfhelp/XPPkuinst.aspx?displaylang=en&sGuid=611c3bc2-4d35-4b86-91c7-d29b375607c8