First time I have attempted building a reference image on a virtual ma

[clivebuckwheat]

I built my reference image using vmware (fusion Mac osx) The hard disk size states 80 gig scsi in vmware. I put all my drivers in C:\Windows\inf\Drivers\Optiplex755 and sealed the machine with sysprep. It is a x64 Windows enterprise build.

I then tried to deploy the image to a Dell Optiplex 755 machine. Windows 7 starts to boot I see the 3 colored balls and the machine then proceeds to shut down.

Is there anyway I could troubleshoot this issue. For the life of me I can't figure out why the image will not boot?.

Please advice. As I have always built my reference images on the actual physical hardware they were going to be deployed too.

[Tripredacus]

You should find the answer in one of the Panther folder logs.

[clivebuckwheat]

Off hand would you know which log?

quote name='Tripredacus' timestamp='1292345492' post='949560']

You should find the answer in one of the Panther folder logs.

[cluberti]

CBS.log might be useful, as would all of the logs in \panther.

[clivebuckwheat]

thanks man, will check tomorrow

My supervisor wants me to start using virtuals to make reference image so he doesn't have to purchase additional hardware to build images on.

CBS.log might be useful, as would all of the logs in \panther.

[cluberti]

Make sure you are not installing the VMware tools into your reference image.

[clivebuckwheat]

I decided to use parallels instead of vmware, ever since then the image boots without issue. Something in vmware fusion is wrong, probably a setting I am unaware of.

Make sure you are not installing the VMware tools into your reference image.