I tested with Windows XP Home, Professionnal and Corporate yet and all hardware I found for now worked like a charm (about 20 or 30 different motherboards, including some laptops, from Pentium 4 / Athlon (socket 462) to Dual Core from AMD and Intel) I hope this receipe will help you to reduce your everyday work. Use the discussion page for this howto to get an answer. I gave so many hours to set up this receipe that I certainly encounteered a problem you may encounteer too. Please contact me if you got any problem while trying to create your master XP image.

10.6 I changed some settings in VMWare Player and now my XP fails to boot with a BSOD 0x0000007Bīecause I realized my process many times and because I didn't wrote it before this howto, I may omit something.

10.5 The key entered during Mini Setup is invalid when I'm activating my windows installation.

10.4 I'm sure I got the mass storage driver for my chipset but it keeps to reboot or show STOP 0x7B error.

10.2 I have to plug my USB Flash Disk our my USB stick twice before windows lets me read his content.

8.3 Find how to install a driver with silent switchs.

8.2 Close all 'new hardware detected' wizard'.

8.1 Howto create an autoextractible 7Zip archive.

7 Deploy the master image on target computers.

5.2 Install windows XP on the master virtual computers (easy, isn't it ?).

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