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[Cybergrace]

i use an HP probook 4410s laptop.I then created a virtual machine using vmware player 3.0 and installed windows xp sp3 from the OEM cd which came with the laptop but the hypervisor does not let the operating system know that the underlying hardware is HP and so xp installed in the virtual machine asks for an activation key.I created another virtual machine and installed windows 7(from non OEM cd).But i could not install hp drivers available fromhere.Again i think windows 7 does not know that it is running on top of an HP machine.The virtual machine makes use of resources of the underlying hardware but the guest OS is not aware that those resources belong to an HP machine?!

[cdob]

installed windows xp sp3 from the OEM cd

Use a editor and edit your .vmx file:

#Enabling the Physical Hardware's OEM ID to Be Seen by the Virtual Machine

SMBIOS.reflectHost = TRUE

i could not install hp drivers

A virtual machine use virtual hardware.
Mostly there dosn't exist underlying hardware at a virtual machine.
You can't install drivers for missing hardware.

[dog]

smbios.reflecthost works for xp, but for vista or 7 you need something like

bios440.filename = "HP_SLIC_2.1.ROM"

Probably only legal if you're running linux, and moved your licenced oem install into a vm...