Today am going to teach you how to install windows Xp in Vmware workstation

Step 1: Once when you have successfully installed Vmware as i told you before  the next step to configure the Vmware    Step 2: Double click the Vmware workstation icon from the desktop

Step 3: Then click on create a New virtual machine from it,Click Next to continued

Step 4: Then choose the configuration type as "Typical " and click next to continued

Step 5: Choose the location from where you want to install the operating system (CD-ROM.Install from disk image (ISO),or i will install operating system later, in my case i choose i will install operating system later),Click Next to continued

Step 6: Choose the type of operating system you want to install in Vmware (in my case i will choose windows Xp) Click Next to continued

 Step 7: Give the Name of virtual machine and choose the location where you want to to save all its file, or you can leave as it default,Click Next to continued

Step 8: Allocate the size of hard disk required for it (in my case i will choose 40 GB space from HDD)Click Next to continued

Step 9: Then Click Next to finish

Step 10:Once you have finish configure the virtual machine then power on it step 11: once you power on Vmware  then go VM menu then choose removable device and CD/DVD drive then click on setting 

step 12: From the connection "choose ISO image file " then browse the ISO file from the drive ,then click open it..

Step 13:once you have add the ISO in Vmware file reboot the Vmware then windows Xp installation  process will be begin 

Step 14:  press Enter to continue.

Step 15:Hit Enter at the next screen to continue installation

Step 16:The Microsoft Windows XP Licensing Agreement appears next, as shown in the following screen. It is important that you read and understand this agreement before continuing with the installation. After you have read and agreed to the contents of the license, press F8 to continue. 

Step 17:You should now see two partitions.  Verify that the new 2047 partition is highlighted and press Enter.

 

Step 18:Highlight the NTFS partition  <Quick> option as shown in the following screen, and press Enter

 

Step 19:After you press Enter, the system formats the partition, as shown in the following screens.

Step 21:once when finish the formatting the drive partition and copying  the file the system reboot itself 

Step 22:After 5 min  regional and language option will be display , leave it as default , then click next to continued.

Step 23: Enter your name and the organization  in the Name and Organization fields. Click the Next button when you are done. 

Step 24: In the Next screen, Enter the Product Key number that came with your software. press Next to continued.

Step 25:Now enter a name in the Computer name field to name your computer.Then, type in a password in the Administrator password field. You also need to confirm the password, as shown in the following screen. Then, click the Next button to continued.

 

Step 26:In the screen that appears, enter the current time, and then fill in the Date field and Time Zone field. Click Next  to continued.

 

 Step 27: In the Networking settings windows leave it as default then Click Next  to continued

Step 28:After certain time installation of windows Xp will be successfully completed, then you are ready to use Ms-windows Xp