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Today's server performance is often excessive, using virtual machines can improve the efficiency of server utilization. VMware is a very good virtual machine software, but its worksation version does not support boot auto-start, support boot-up server has not been updated for many years, has not been able to support 2008r2, today's tutorial will help you solve this problem.

1. Required Tools Instsrv.exe and Srvany.exe.

: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/confirmation.aspx?id=17657

Download the Resource Kit for Windows Server 2003 Resource Kit TOOLS,WIN2K3 (rktools.exe), install Rktools.exe extract inside Instsrv.exe and Srvany.exe

2. Need to know the installation path of Vmware.exe, take this machine as an example: D:\VMware Workstation\vmware.exe
To start the virtual machine profile path, the path to the configuration file for my 2003 virtual machine WINDOWS2003.VMX is D:\vmare\windows2003\windows server 2003.vmx

3. New service
Suppose the service name is Vm_autostart, so my command line is:
Instsrv Vm_autostart D:\tools\srvany.exe

4. Registration Service
In the registry, navigate to Hkey_local_machine\system\currentcontrolset\services\vm_autostart
New item: "Parameters"
In the "Parameters" entry, create a new string "Application",
The value of the string:
"D:\VMware Workstation\vmware.exe"-X "D:\vmare\windows2003\windows server 2003.vmx"
(If you want to load two virtual machine systems on the boot, just add a virtual machine profile path later)

5. Set the virtual machine boot state
Management Tools-Services, select the properties of the Vm_autostart-login, check "Local System account" and tick "allow service to interact with desktop", so your computer will start up with the VMware boot screen

Reference:

Original link: Ituff. Windows R2 settings VMware Self-booting before booting in. http://blog.csdn.net/ituff/article/details/8617288

Reference address: Xianqing. The system automatically starts the VMware Virtual machine (System service) without logging on. http://blog.sina.com.cn/s/blog_55f647120100gg81.html

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