Page History

...

1. Open and Power On the VM you just modified
2. IMPORTANT Edit the unattend.xml file according to the instructions to rearm for sysprep.
   • Perform the following edits:

     Old Value	New Value
     <settings pass="oobeSystem" wasPassProcessed="true">	<settings pass="oobeSystem">
     <Mode>Audit</Mode>	<Mode>OOBE</Mode>
     <settings pass="generalize" wasPassProcessed="true">	<settings pass="generalize">
     <SkipRearm>1</SkipRearm>	<SkipRearm>0</SkipRearm>

3. In SysPrep window
   1. Check the Generalize Box
   2. Make sure Shutdown Option is set to Shutdown
   3. Make sure System Cleanup Action is set to Enter System Out-of-Box Experience (OOBE)
   4. Click OK and wait
      You will end up with the VM closed in VMware.

Final edits of the VMware configuration and cleanup of folders

1. Edit the .vmx file
   1. Change the VM Name to "Windows 7 SP1 Student - x32"
   2. Make sure path to vmdk is relative. If you used snapshots at any point, it has probably reverted to an explicit path.
   3. Replace all sharedFolder entries with the following to enable mirror on Macs of Documents and Desktop. You may have to find a few hiding entries that are not together.
      sharedFolder0.present = "TRUE"
      sharedFolder0.enabled = "TRUE"
      sharedFolder0.readAccess = "TRUE"
      sharedFolder0.writeAccess = "TRUE"
      sharedFolder0.hostPath = "~/Desktop"
      sharedFolder0.guestName = "My Desktop"
      sharedFolder0.expiration = "never"
      sharedFolder1.present = "TRUE"
      sharedFolder1.enabled = "TRUE"
      sharedFolder1.readAccess = "TRUE"
      sharedFolder1.writeAccess = "TRUE"
      sharedFolder1.hostPath = "~/Documents"
      sharedFolder1.guestName = "My Documents"
      sharedFolder1.expiration = "never"
      sharedFolder.maxNum = "2"
      hgfs.redirectShellFolder.maxNum = "4"
      sharedFolder0.shareTags = "auto,desktop"
      sharedFolder1.shareTags = "auto,documents"
      hgfs.redirectShellFolder0.name = "desktop"
      hgfs.redirectShellFolder0.enabled = "TRUE"
      hgfs.redirectShellFolder1.name = "documents"
      hgfs.redirectShellFolder1.enabled = "TRUE"
   4. Remove the UUID and Ethernet entries according to Windows 7 Reference VM Setup to remove the VMware ids.
   5. Make sure CDROM is set to Auto
      ide1:0.deviceType = "cdrom-raw"
      ide1:0.fileName = "auto detect"
      ide1:0.present = "TRUE"
      ide1:0.startConnected = "TRUE"
   6. Save and exit the .vmx file.
2. Delete all files in the .vmwarevm folder except the .vmx and the vmdk folder.
3. Copy vmx_enable_sharing.vbs into the .vmwarevm folder (this is the script to covert the vmx configuration file on Windows hosts to mirror the Desktop and My Documents.
4. Zip up the folder using 7-zip

TEST