Part 4 of the series is on the way. I hope to have it done shortly. I’m budgeting to pickup a external hard drive to export the Virtual Machine to from my laptop. I ran into a few strange problems when trying to install VMware Converter Version 3. I came across the following error:

After a little research I found out it was a networking issue. I don’t generally run windows file sharing and networking on my laptop beyond what I need to do web and ftp. So once I reinstalled windows file sharing, windows networking, and enabled all the services it installed without a hitch.