Accessible virtual machine: preferably debian

Alex Snow alex_snow at gmx.net
Mon Feb 11 10:19:19 EST 2008


While we're on the topic of unattended installs...has anyone 
successfully installed server 2003?  I've tried a bunch of times, but 
no matter what I do I can't get any audio out of it...aparently the 
audio service is disabled/not started by default...anyone have a trick 
to getting it going?
On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 01:10:43AM -0800, Tyler 
Spivey wrote:
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> I thought I would chime in since I just finished unattended installs of
> xp and vista about 6 times. With XP, there is a really handy guide at:
> http://unattended.msfn.org
> Which walks you through the entire process. For Vista, there is the
> windows AIK (Automated installation kit), which is an enormous 900 meg+
> download that you must get and install in order to create one
> comparitively small (5k or so) xml file that can be put on a flash disk
> where vista's setup program can pick it up. One trick that I've learned,
> and will share with anyone reading this thread, is that an OCR package
> can recognize some of the text on a screenshot taken by VMware. I've
> gotten the best results by running the image through "convert -resize
> 1440", where convert is from the imagemagick package. This is useful if
> you get stuck somewhere along the way, but YMMV.
> If you need any help, feel free to email me offlist and I'll see what I
> can do.
> - - Tyler
> 
> On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 09:05:49AM -0700, Don Raikes wrote:
> > Cheryl,
> > 
> > I would be interested in knowing how you got xp installed into a virtual machine.
> > I am running windows xp pro, and have vmware server installed, but need  a copy of windows 2007 and vista for testing purposes, but have not been successful in getting them installed into virtual machines without requiring sighted help.
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