Ok... enough. You go on and recommend to Windows Users New to Linux that they should use VMware Player 2.02 to run windows XP in a window.

I'll gladly tell people to use VirtualBox for basic XP needs... and if they want to study up long and hard... to find out what the answers to the installer's questions are going to ask them... before they even install it, to go ahead and do so.

We could create a topic for just such a task. Frankly, I was disappointed in VMware... because they are such a best of breed company.
I have some ungodly number of programs on a knoppix disk... and I am disappointed in VMware for not noticing there was another 'incompatible' VM software actively installed, with loaded drivers... and still continuing to install. I should not have to have any special boot image just to run 1 program.

My network was disabled by an incorrect /etc/dhcpc/resolve.conf being written. If those numbers were for network devices and subnets produced by vmware for the guest os... then maybe it should have been named vmware_resolve.conf.

Ok, enough is enough.

I will make a new knoppix.img and rename my real one... and install vmware with that.
I will also try out that GUI .vmx maker.
I probably won't remember my password here... and this will take me some time.