This is a major setback for any VM as portability is one of the more important features.In this article, I will teach you how to install VMware Tools in your virtual machines, so that you can Taking it to another machine might trigger the activation logic. Remember that your VM might not be portable after that. I'm not sure if this works for your toshiba laptop, but you could try it. Normally in a VM the Manufacturer string is "VMware, Inc." and the Product Name string is "VMware Virtual Platform" Setting the above option will copy the vendor strings of the existing SMBIOS from the host system. This will copy the OEMID of the physical computer to the SMBIOS of the virtual machine. You could add the following setting to your virtual machine's vmx file:
However there might be a way getting around that. That's because the the windows version that came with your laptop is OEM and officially you are not allowed to run those virtual license wise. >My Toshiba recovery disc wouldn't install, said it was the wrong machine. Good to hear you got it resolved and thanks for the points. I like to tinker and I tend to make serious mistakes once in awhile while I am learning, thus, I really could use it. I am impressed with the software and hope to get it working. I have the users guide and I will be studying that some more to see if I can find any answers there. I am assuming that I can try that as well with my free trial subscription. I haven't tried VMware on the Windows side yet. It would have taken several hours at the rate that it was going.
With my last attempt, though, it seemed to be installing, but extremely slowly. I tried installing from an iso image with the same result. I also tried installing several differnet versions of Ubuntu but they would seem to hang up at some point, a different one each time.
My Toshiba recovery disc wouldn't install, said it was the wrong machine. It shutdown saying it might corrupt the hard drive if it continued. The XP pro install disc I had borrowed wouldn't install. The command line worked perfectly, the installation went as advertised.
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