VMware Converter - virtualizing XP partition: Which Sysprep, SP2 or SP3, or none at all?

Question

I've seen this same problem discussed elsewhere, but none of the fixes I've found so far solve my paticular problem:

I'm using $.post inside $(#form).submit to submit the form via AJAX so the user doesn't leave the page. It works just dandy in IE, but both FF and Chrome refresh the current page with the form field name and value in the querystring, probably because the form has no action="" specified. I can get IE to duplicate the problem if I rename the function that is specified in , because then IE can't find the function to correctly perform the $.post and it also will refresh the current page with the form field name and value in the querystring.

The form is dynamically created, and needs to have the random number in the form name so that more than one form can be visible at a time. I don't think that's part of the problem though, because the form name always shows up correctly in an alert() in all browsers.

function add_new_product(){

    var formName = "frm_add_new_product_" + window.random_number_for_IDs;

    alert('this alert is BEFORE the (#formname).submit');

    $("#" + formName).submit(function(event) {
        alert('this alert is inside the (#formname).submit BEFORE .preventDefault');
        event.preventDefault();
        alert('this alert is inside the (#formname).submit AFTER .preventDefault but BEFORE $.post');
        $.post("add_new_product.php?SiteID=<?php echo $_GET['SiteID']; ?>", $("#" + formName).serialize(), function(data){$("#DIV_new_product_name_" + window.random_number_for_IDs).html(data);});
        alert('this alert is inside the (#formname).submit AFTER $.post');
    });

    alert('this alert is AFTER the (#formname).submit');

    $("#DIV_new_product_form_" + window.random_number_for_IDs).fadeOut(100, function(){$("#DIV_new_product_name_" + window.random_number_for_IDs).fadeIn(100);});

}

In IE, I see all every alert() but not in the order specified above. It first displays the ones before and after the $(#form).submit, and THEN the ones inside. FF and Chrome only display the alerts() before and after the $(#form).submit, but never the ones inside.

Solution

Since I know what sysprep is supposed to do, and I didn't need to do those things, I ignored the warning and went ahead and created the virtual image without sysprep. It seems to work just fine, so I can say, at least in my one specific case, that the sysprep warning can be ignored without any apparent problems.

Comments

[Niklas]

What does the <?php echo $_GET['SiteID']; ?> display at the client? Is it what you expect? Also, the last "AFTER" alert will always display before those inside since the script only waits for the code inside the function(data){}. Anything you want done after the data has been returned to the client needs to go inside that function(data){}

[cheeken]

Have you tried using Chrome's excellent built-in introspection tools, specifically the JavaScript debugger? It only takes a second to set up: Ctrl+Shift+i, click Scripts, grab your script from the dropdown, and click the line numbers that you want to debug.

[Navin R. Johnson]

Niklas: Firebug shows that the SiteID from PHP is displayed properly. The mystery is why the .submit doesn't appear to be working at all. If it did, the DIV I specified should be populated with the error from the target page at add_new_product.php

[Navin R. Johnson]

cheeken: I looked at the script in Chrome, but it appears to refresh the current page as described above before I can see anything useful in the debugger. Perhaps I'm not using it correctly :)