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[Discuss] a virtual challenge..



First, what version of VMware are you using? Are you trying to boot the
same guest image in VirtualBox and VMware. Richards advice to use the
converter will help.

On 02/13/2014 11:20 AM, Stephen Adler wrote:
> Guys,
>
> So I'm trying to do something rather complicated and contorted.
> Basically I have a virtual box windows 7 guest environment which is
> running fine using virtual box, but if I boot it using VMware, the
> vmware guest causes a windows blue screen to happen at boot up time.
>
> So, without reinstalling windows 7 from scratch under VMware, I need
> to disable a driver which seems to work under virtual box but not
> under vmware. Do you guys know how to hunt for this driver? How to
> find out which driver is causing the VMware guest to blue screen? and
> then how to replace it with a generic windows driver?

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