

- #Labrador windows xp background install#
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In the beginning you will not be able to use your mouse so you will have to navigate only with your keyboard while finishing the Sysprep.
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Step 7: Remove the first hard driver and change the ID of the second one to IDE 0:0.
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I will install the operating system later.Step 4: Open your VMware Player and go to menu Player - File - New Virtual Machine to create a new virtual machine.
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Step 3: Browse the archive structure and go to the \sources\xpm\ path. Step 2: Use a program like 7-Zip to open the downloaded. Step 1: Download the Windows XP Mode installer. Of course, if you have an OEM key you can apply it and you will get a fully functional operating system. The result is a Windows XP virtual machine available for 30 days but as we are using this OS for tests, these days are more than enough. The steps below are explaining the process to get running Windows XP virtual machine on your VMware Player from the official Windows XP Mode binary packet in less than 5 minutes.
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Here comes the next logical question - is it possible to run Microsoft Windows XP Mode on the latest VMware Player under Windows 8.1? Windows XP on VMware Player and Windows 8.1 Because of that, if I'm running my Cisco Unified Communications Manager on VMware Player, I would like to have my branches and Cisco IP Phones running on virtual machines sharing the same hypervisor. The problem is that Windows XP Mode is not officially available for these operating systems and if you want to have a spare Microsoft OS, you have to install it from scratch on some virtual machine.įrom all available virtualization vendors, Cisco products support only VMware - this is important! We prefer to keep the things as simple as possible so if we want to build a Cisco voice lab we would stick to the same virtualization platform for all components. Currently Windows 7 is the most used Microsoft OS among our visitors, but we cannot ignore the newer versions 8 and 8.1 which are growing constantly. The official End of extended support for Windows 7 is announced as of Januwhich most probably means that until 2020 we will be still able to use Windows XP Mode for our dirty tests. However Microsoft are advising us to use it only offline because of the expired support. And although Windows XP is officially dead, yet the XP Mode is still available for download. Windows XP Mode for Windows 7 makes it easy to install and run any programs that run on Windows XP directly from a computer that runs Windows 7 (or later, as we will see).

Microsoft did a great job with their Windows 7 when they offered the possibility to have a virtual machine running Windows XP. I'm saying that because even we are still using it a lot and it is pretty common for some dirty tests, especially if you are native Windows user. In fact it is the third one (up to date) popular Windows OS operating system and it is used from almost 4% of our visitors. Officially Windows XP died on Apbut it is still quite popular OS, okay. In fact we are using Windows XP Mode virtual machine with installed either Cisco IP Communicator or VTGO IP Blue to have an additional softphones. We are using it a lot for our voice labs when we need to simulate remote branches. Do you still use Windows XP? What about XP Mode?
