How to install Vista 5270 on VMW

[Surfman19]

i got the following message when i tried to install vista build 5308:

Setup was unable to locate a locally attached hard drive suitable for holding temporary Setup files.

what can i do now??? hmm....

i allocated 10GB for vista on vmware!

VMWARE 5.5.1 build-19175

Edited March 13, 2006 by Surfman19

[InViSibLe Gr]

i got the following message when i tried to install vista build 5308:

Setup was unable to locate a locally attached hard drive suitable for holding temporary Setup files.

what can i do now??? hmm....

i allocated 10GB for vista on vmware!

VMWARE 5.5.1 build-19175

chabge the hd from 10 to 16GB and you will be ok

[Surfman19]

ok, can i see transparent window and the 3d desktop with vmware and vista?

cu

[fizban2]

no you won't be able to, lack of directx support in VMs...

[Javier Soto]

This is what appears here when I try to install it on Vmware :S (Vista 5432)

[Javier Soto]

Okay, I found the problem. My system has only 512MB of RAM, thus VMware will use 256 for Vista, and that's not enough... So I think I'll make a partition and install it there.

I have Windows Media Center Edition 2005 SP2, if I install Vista (5342) on a different partition, will I be able to boot both OSs?

Thanks in advance.

[fizban2]

you will be able to boot both os's, but on your boot partition (the WMCE one) the bootloader will change to the vista one, at that point you will have to erase the partition and switch the bootloader off to use the boot.ini files instead so that you won't get prompted everytime to choose what OS you want (after unistall vista)

[Javier Soto]

Then it's imposible to have both OS in the same boot? so I can choose whenever I want to use Vista or WMC?

Thanks for your help.

[TT^4ever]

Whats the version of the VMware can lanch the Vista 5381?thank you.

And please give the download link? Thank you.

[Guest]

Vista betas won't install to "raw" disk partitions just yet.

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This is the relevant bit:

Installing the Guest Operating System

1. Insert the Windows Vista CD in the CD-ROM drive.

2. Power on the virtual machine to start installing Windows Vista.

3. If using a blank hard disk: When the Windows Vista installer menu appears, choose the first option, Install Now.

If installing over an existing guest operating system: Skip to step 9.

4. Press Shift-F10 to open a command prompt.

5. Start the disk partitioning utility.

diskpart

6. Enter the following commands to partition the hard disk:

select disk 0

create partition primary

7. When the partitioning process is complete, click the Reset button to reboot the virtual machine.

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Thank you, Mr Snrub, for that insightful information.

I was having difficulty installing Beta 2 x64 (build 5384.4) on an nForce3 system that previously had XP x86 installed on a RAID 0 volume. I broke down the RAID to install Vista, but setup kept reporting that it couldn't retrieve my drive information and returning to the main screen.

I followed your directions and entered the following commands under DiskPart:

select disk 0
clean
create partition primary
select disk 1
clean
create partition primary

It worked perfectly. Thanks again!

[tantraman]

howcome I can't adjust the scres res. it is stuck on low.

[DanRSturbo]

howcome I can't adjust the scres res. it is stuck on low.

I should imagine that your graphics card drivers have not been installed ? Does it allow you to chang ethe resolution as well or not ?

[MtnDewKing68]

Has anyone installed Vista as a VM and not have IE able to get to web sites? I can ping external sites, but not get to them via IE. I've reinstalled Vista twice now and have the same results. Other VMs I have work just fine.

[LeveL]

unfortuantly no, not unless you can get your VM to recogonize your Video card, which i do not believe is possible since it uses a generic SVGA driver to show video, you would be better off either either dual booting your machine or get another HD you can use for testing

There is something you can try (this is to give vmware 64mb of video

memory) but it is "experimental" and didn't work for me, you never

know though...

1 - Make sure that vmware is shut down (NOT just paused, it needs

to be powered off)

2 - Go into the folder where your virtual disk is stored, open the VMX file

with Notepad, add these two lines...

mks.enable3d = TRUE
svga.vramSize = 67108864

3 - Power on the VM and PREY!

Okay, I found the problem. My system has only 512MB of RAM, thus VMware will use 256 for Vista, and that's not enough... So I think I'll make a partition and install it there.

I have Windows Media Center Edition 2005 SP2, if I install Vista (5342) on a different partition, will I be able to boot both OSs?

Thanks in advance.

Allocate all 512Mb to the virtual machine, yeah your real system is pretty much

crippled whilst Vista is installing but, once its installed, shut it down, double click

the RAM, turn it down to 224Mb (NO LESS) and power back on, this is the great

Vista SCAM!

The scam being that it refuses to install on anything under 512Mb RAM but

runs quite happily (just as smooth as 512Mb) on only 224Mb of RAM, proving

that Microsoft are making us buy hardware we do not need.

Edited July 26, 2006 by LeveL

[stratman]

unfortuantly no, not unless you can get your VM to recogonize your Video card, which i do not believe is possible since it uses a generic SVGA driver to show video, you would be better off either either dual booting your machine or get another HD you can use for testing

There is something you can try (this is to give vmware 64mb of video

memory) but it is "experimental" and didn't work for me, you never

know though...

1 - Make sure that vmware is shut down (NOT just paused, it needs

to be powered off)

2 - Go into the folder where your virtual disk is stored, open the VMX file

with Notepad, add these two lines...

mks.enable3d = TRUE
svga.vramSize = 67108864

3 - Power on the VM and PREY!

The correct lines to enable 64M Video in VMware are

mks.enable3d = "TRUE"
svga.vramSize = "67108864"

Thanks to LeveL for pointing me in the right direction