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rmustafa
Contributor
Contributor
‎10-28-2009 01:25 AM

automation win xp VM from win xp template & sysprep

Hi,

I've template ready for WINXP, the only problem is when I deploy another WINXP-VM from this template , I need to manually change a hostname of each machine &

for that I need to take the machine in workgroup, change a hostname & then again need to take it in domain.

So to overcome this problem, I wanted to use use sysprep with my ready template.how it can be done ?????

Please help me on this issue.

~Rashid

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Gerrit_Lehr
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‎10-28-2009 01:30 AM

This should guide you through this: http://communities.vmware.com/message/478078

Kind regards,

Gerrit Lehr

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AndreTheGiant
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Immortal
‎10-28-2009 01:35 AM

I suppose that you have vCenter Server.

You have to take the deploy.cab file from the XP CD, open it, and copy all file in a specific folder on your vCenter Server.

http://virtualizationinformation.com/?p=28

http://www.thewebhostinghero.com/tutorials/creating-vmware-template.html

Andre

Andrew | http://about.me/amauro | http://vinfrastructure.it/ | @Andrea_Mauro
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