If you ever use VMware Converter to import a Windows XP machine from for example a VMware workstation image, you may find that when you boot it up, it sits there at a black screen with a cursor in the top left hand part of the screen. Left alone, the VM will start to use 100% CPU.
I ran into this issue yesterday and discovered that the problem was due to the original Windows XP machine having IDE disks. When importing a VM like this from VMware Workstation, change the disks to SCSI when you setup the converter job.
