remote installation possible?

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I was wondering is it possible to do a remote install of XP from my main machine to a virtual system on the same pc?

 

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Not sure what your asking, do you want to RDP to a remote pc, start virtual pc/vmware workstation and install a xp on a virtual machine?

 

I want to treat the VHD as a remote system even though its on the same system.

 

What do you mean by remote install?

Do you mean deploy it over the network (as in WDS)? If so it is possible to deploy from physical to virtual machine on the same PC but you would need the physical machine to be a server OS.

Other than that I think you would need a Virtual PC running and then run the installation as normal.

 

oh right well that buggers it. I was wanting to do it by WDS, it was just something I wanted to practice.

 

Are you going to be deploying using PXE? or using a boot disk image that you mount to your vm? Keepn in mind you can install a VM of a windows 2008 server and then deploy the image using PXE to another hosted VM on your pc...It's just that it would probably be heavy on your system to do all that.

 

well I Was going to install win2k3 to the vm and then use the three copies of xp from my ms press books to remotley install from my system through the dc to the virtual workstations.

 

lol cheers for that.

 

Exactly what I meant lol...