Has anyone managed to get an existing xp professional to dual boot
with
vmware. I installed a new xp kernel without ACPI using the
/KERNEL=VMOSKRNL.EXE /HAL=VMHAL.DLL fix but this crashes too saying I
need
to run checkdisk and scan for viruses.When I try to run in safe mode
it
outputs disk/driver info but just hangs. I can still boot the old disk
stand
alone and it has a current virus checker and there are no checkdisk
errors.

Here is a screen shot http://www.hmh.net/error.jpg

I did what VMware required of me to do to make this whole thing work
with switching the HAL.DLL as stated on VM's website.
 Using RAW disk virtual machines with ACPI features :
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