Dual boot 32 and 64 bit

In order to emulate a real environment with Windows XP 32 bit and Windows 7 64 bit running on 2 partitions of that same box I created a new VM with IDE 2 hard drives.

Based on my experience with physical boxes, Windows XP must be installed before Windows 7.

However:

  • If I say that the guest operating system is Windows XP 32-bit, I can install Windows XP and later Windows 7, but Windows 7 does not recognize the network interface. Install VMware tools and edit comments settings do not solve the problem.
  • If I create a new virtual machine and I say that the guest operating system is Windows 7 64 bit, I can install Windows XP 32-bit, but it does not recognize the interface network and other devices.

On the other hand

  • If I create a virtual machine, set the operating system and windows XP and install Windows XP everything works fine without having to install VMware Tools.
  • If I create an another VM, define the operating system like Windows 7 64 bit and install Windows 7 64 bit, everything works fine as well without VMware Tools...

The only test I did not not played is defining the operating system as 'Other', but I do not think that this will solve my problem...

Anybodu you suggest a way to solve my problem?

Concerning

Marius

When you select Windows 7, the next parameter is defined in the configuration for the network card .vmx file.

ethernet0.virtualDev = "e1000"

It is not used by default in Windows XP, and you must provide the driver yourself if you want to use Windows XP.  The driver is included as part of the Windows 7 installation DVD.

What I would have done it, it's a Windows 7 VM pointing to the existing Windows XP drive to create and use two separate configuration files to Duel-boot build.

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