Virtualization and RIS

Hi Everyone,

I am beginning to study for the MCSE 70-270 (Windows XP) exam, and through both my readings of the material and the discussions on these forums, I've noticed that RIS seems pretty important in preparing for this exam.

I have access to a lab PC that is running VMWare Workstation (I'm not very familiar with all the features of VMWare just yet), and I was wondering if VMWare has the functionality that would allow me to install Windows XP via RIS through a local machine, or if I'd only be able to do that with a separate physical PC?

Thanks.

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Comments

astorrs

Yes, you can do a network (PXE) boot from a virtual machine under VMware Workstation. The challenge is hitting the ESC key during boot-up to get the boot device menu - they POST really, really fast.

rift

Thanks astorrs!

dynamik

That's no joke. What I do now is just ctrl+alt+del as soon as it captures input and then start mashing on F2 or whatever I need to be hitting.

astorrs

dynamik wrote:

That's no joke. What I do now is just ctrl+alt+del as soon as it captures input and then start mashing on F2 or whatever I need to be hitting.

Yup I had to do the same thing on Tuesday - took me 10 tries. Thankfully in VI3.5 they added a checkbox to have it boot into the BIOS on next boot - still haven't see that in Workstation (which is strange because it usually goes the other way).