[clue] VMWare question

Richard Knechtel richard.knechtel at gmail.com
Sat Nov 3 18:41:53 MDT 2012


I used VMwares converter application. I imaged my original WINXP 
drive. Mainly because of my SonicFoundry audio tools(bought out by 
Sony) (Acid Pro, SoundForge, and the different plugins etc...) Linux 
really doesn't have good solid alternatives for these tools. I know 
there is Audacity etc.. but SonicFoundry's tools are just steps above 
anything Linux has right now.  It seems the issue with these tools is 
the registration is tied to the VolumeId of the hard drive - which 
changes in a virtualized environment or moving to another physical 
system. So I'm stuck and have to re-register them. Some other's it 
seem the guest os (winxp) doesn't recognize the install/regsitration 
within the windows registry - wierd.

At 10:20 PM 11/2/2012, Jim Ockers wrote:
>Richard,
>
>Richard Knechtel wrote:
> > I am running the free version of  VMWare server v2 in Fedora 17. I
> > created a vmware image of my old WIndows XP system and fired it up
> > under VMWare. However any program I had installed in it acts like it
> > isn't registered and wants me to "re register".  I have been
> > searching and searching for anything similar on the web to this and
> > have come up with nothing. Does anyone know if there is some setting
> > or something so you don't basically have to re register every single
> > applications installed in the guest os?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
>What does it mean "I created a vmware image" ? Did you ghost it? Copy
>the files? Use some other disk imaging utility which you didn't specify
>the name of? What programs specifically are complaining about not being
>registered? Does NOTEPAD.EXE throw up this error? Is it a path problem?
>Did your drive letters change?
>
>How did you image your old system and then put the image into your
>VMware virtual machine? The answer to that will help us understand why
>your Windows system might be acting like the programs are un-registered.
>
>--
>Jim Ockers, P.E., P.Eng. (ockers at ockers.net)
>Contact info: http://www.ockers.net/
>
>
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