Urgent IIS Problem Hanging when XP pro boots up

am currently running XP Home as the OS for my computer, but need to
install XP Pro in order to get IIS as this of course does not come
with the home version of XP.
So I have installed VMware 5.5 in a folder on the hard drive and have
extracted the files. Fine so far!

Then have created a new virtual machine and installed XPPro. On
starting XP pro from within the VMware control panel the first time
this appears to work and it opens and runs Pro as it should. However
if I close this down and start XP Pro up again either on the second
or
third time it takes an age to load up and when it does I cant find
the IIS connection.

If I go to the Run command and type MCC and add IIS there it just
hangs and just crashes.
Do you have any idea why this could be happening and if so any way I
can fix this. If there some kind of time out issue with IIS or is it
somthing else? Any ideas would be helpfull at this time.

Re: Urgent IIS Problem Hanging when XP pro boots up

In general, XP (and IIS) run just fine with VMWare (or Virtual Server, or
VPC). I have half a dozen such virtual machine and have no problems using
IIS.

So something else is up. you could try:
a) ensuring you have the latest version of VMWare (workstation or server)
b) ensuring that you shutdown the guest properly
c) do some investigation lower down in the stack (e.g. look for events
related to networking)

None of the above would explain MMC crashing though (or are you using MMC on
the host OS?) Perhaps it may be best just to reinstall XP in your virtual
machine.

Cheers
Ken

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> am currently running XP Home as the OS for my computer, but need to
> install XP Pro in order to get IIS as this of course does not come
> with the home version of XP.
> So I have installed VMware 5.5 in a folder on the hard drive and have
> extracted the files. Fine so far!
>
> Then have created a new virtual machine and installed XPPro. On
> starting XP pro from within the VMware control panel the first time
> this appears to work and it opens and runs Pro as it should. However
> if I close this down and start XP Pro up again either on the second
> or
> third time it takes an age to load up and when it does I cant find
> the IIS connection.
>
> If I go to the Run command and type MCC and add IIS there it just
> hangs and just crashes.
> Do you have any idea why this could be happening and if so any way I
> can fix this. If there some kind of time out issue with IIS or is it
> somthing else? Any ideas would be helpfull at this time.
>