A user on betawiki.net called Anonymous74 made a whole wiki of all windows whistler/XP builds he tried installing on VMware Workstation Pro 16 so check it out if your version of it supports it www.betaarchive.com/wiki/index.php?title=User:Anonymous74/xpbuildproject apparently to fix this issue you need to disable ACPI enable to get this working on build 2296
Can you try to install Whistler 2296 on VMware? I tried installing it but stuck on Setup is starting windows
I will try someday
A user on betawiki.net called Anonymous74 made a whole wiki of all windows whistler/XP builds he tried installing on VMware Workstation Pro 16 so check it out if your version of it supports it
www.betaarchive.com/wiki/index.php?title=User:Anonymous74/xpbuildproject apparently to fix this issue you need to disable ACPI enable to get this working on build 2296