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Install VMware Converter and Player

If you don't already have an installation of VMware Workstation, you can download the VMware Converter and VMware Player applications for free from the following locations:

VMware Converter: http://www.vmware.com/products/converter/
VMware Player: http://www.vmware.com/products/player/
  1. Change to the directory containing the VMware converter and un-tar the archive. You can safely accept all of the defaults while installing VMware Converter: root@bt4:~# tar -zxvf VMware-converter-4.0.1-161434.tar.gz
  2. Once the extraction is complete, change to the newly created directory and run the installer: root@bt4:~# cd vmware-converter-distrib/
    root@bt4:~# ./vmware-install.pl
    root@bt4:~# /usr/bin/vmware-converter-client
  3. Once Converter has started up, select 'Convert Machine' from the toolbar.
  4. In the drop-down menu next to 'Select source type', select 'Backup image or third-party virtual machine'. Luckily for us, VMware Converter supports most major image and virtual machine formats.
  5. Click 'Browse', and select the '.vmc' file in the from the extracted NIST image, then click 'Next'.
  6. In the drop-down menu next to 'Select destination type', select 'VMware Workstation or other VMware virtual machine'. Another drop-down menu will appear below the first one. Select 'Vmware Player 2.5.x'.
  7. Enter a name under 'Virtual machine details', choose a location to save the virtual machine, then click 'Next'.
  8. On the Windows version of VMware Converter, once Converter has finished analyzing the virtual machine, you will be presented with a window where you can change various VM options. Select 'Advanced options' then select the box 'Install VMware Tools on the imported virtual machine'. Click 'Next', then 'Finish'.
  9. Change to your download directory, make the VMware Player executable, and start the VMware Player installer and follow the wizard through the installation:
    root@bt4:~# chmod 755 VMware-Player-2.5.2-156735.i386.bundle
    root@bt4:~# ./VMware-Player-2.5.2-156735.i386.bundle
  10. Start VMware Player and boot the XP VM.
  11. Uninstall the "Virtual Machine Additions" using "Add Remove Programs" and install VMWare tools.

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