Originally Posted By: tfabris
If it was anything like my issues I had installing XP in a VM, it was probably the device drivers for the hard disk. You have to do the thing where you press S during install and supply it with a third party floppy disc image. Only problem is, I tried that, and it still didn't work.

I'm surprised that you've had trouble getting XP to work. Its always worked fine for me with no problems at all. It is just as hard to install XP to a SCSI HD. VMware emulates IDE in Server & Workstation so you don't even need a driver. ESX 4.0 does IDE now as well but the driver disk always worked fine if you used the SCSI emulation.