Comments on: How to install Windows Vista RC2 on VMware Workstation

By: Neme^

Neme^ — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 12:46:14 +0000

>I use VMware Workstation 5.5.2
>Create VMX 1 Go Ram, SCSI HDD, 2 IDE CD/DVD, 2 >CPUs (I own a dual centrino)
>Booted from physical DVD Drive

Worked for me, thanks a bunch.

By: Peter Johnson

Peter Johnson — Thu, 17 May 2007 16:53:13 +0000

Hi.. thanks for all your help.. I think I found something else that makes it work on my system… In addition to pointing t a real CD device… I pressed f2 during VMware boot to ente BIOS, and also change CD-ROM to 1st boot device. worked perfect after this..

By: Pkzip

Pkzip — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:05:41 +0000

Doesn’t work out on ESX 3.0.0 or ESX 3.0.1.
Would be nice if it did, but, well…can’t expect everything.

By: MikeLO

MikeLO — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 19:29:45 +0000

I mean in VMware Workstation THANKX

By: MikeLO

MikeLO — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 19:29:00 +0000

Hey Guys Can you Please tell me how to install Vista. I don’t only have that problem but 100 of other problems with it. Can u please write every step thanX how to install it please THANKX.

By: jonas schneider

jonas schneider — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 18:09:11 +0000

great

1. leave your physical cd drive blank.
2. create first cd drive in vmware -> mount your .iso
3. start install
4. when prompted for the drivers, mount the image to second drive also and
5. off you go

By: Andrew

Andrew — Sat, 20 Jan 2007 09:29:52 +0000

Thanks! It worked amazing. I’ve been searching the web for days to find the soloution

By: ugur

ugur — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 21:39:57 +0000

Hi,
That is how I managed to solve the problem.

I mounted the image with virtual daemon as drive G.
I selected the Use Physical Drive (Auto detect)
I just changed virtual device node to IDE 1:0 CD-ROM 1

Then it worked fine.

By: DominoG

DominoG — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 13:18:56 +0000

Doesn’t work for me either.

By: mike

mike — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 18:23:03 +0000

If anyone else is getting this error

Be sure you have ANY SATA DRIVERS READY.
My 2 were recognized, so I didn’t think about it.
I unplugged my SATA and it installed fine.

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 15:37:31 +0000

I am having this problem as well.

Except I am installing on just a regular system, without using any VMware (virtual machine ware?)

When I attempt to upgrade, I am told it is disabled.

Right now I’m at class, but I have my ISO image mounted, and also burned to a DVD. When I try to boot to DVD and I get the error about missing device drivers. When I hit browse, all I see is my DVD Drive and my HD(s). I still have my image mounted so it should show the image.

If I put in another DVD into my drive, nothing changes and it still shows Vista as being in the drive.

I received this DVD from my friend so I’m not sure which version of Vista it is though. Either way, this problem should not be happening. I know it works because my friend did it. He didn’t get this error though.

By: Michael

Michael — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 19:55:48 +0000

Liam, maybe you should try it with Vista final and VMware Worksation 5.5.3. I didn’t have any problem there.

By: Liam McDermott

Liam McDermott — Tue, 05 Dec 2006 02:03:54 +0000

Got it to work eventually, following these instructions: http://www.vmware.com/community/thread.jspa?threadID=61625&tstart=0#513780
Vista still sucks.

By: Liam McDermott

Liam McDermott — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 23:13:11 +0000

Doesn’t work for me either. Pressing browse reveals that Vista hasn’t detected either of the CD drives. Nice.

It’s not as if they’d get me off Ubuntu anyway.

By: muddy

muddy — Sun, 03 Dec 2006 21:16:24 +0000

negatory on that last, a loopback mount doesn’t create a suitable /dev

By: muddy

muddy — Sun, 03 Dec 2006 20:41:37 +0000

ugh, the vmware server is in the lab at work, I do most of my work from home over VPN… even when I do go into work, the server is in a lab in another building from my office… I -hate- having to use actual dvds.

hmmm, i wonder if I could loopback mount the ISO in the linux host OS ?

By: decompyler

decompyler — Tue, 21 Nov 2006 03:11:36 +0000

To save yall some plastic…. I had the same experience which was subdued by simply mounting the iso on the host os with a virtual cd tool like Alcohol 120% then pointing to that “physical” cd within vmware

By: poktor

poktor — Mon, 13 Nov 2006 22:59:51 +0000

Thx, boozedog! Your input did it! RC2 and RTM both need a REAL CD/DVD drive. My advise here is: avoid problems, and burn your ISO to a DVD. Then you can install without any problems.

By: boozedog

boozedog — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 14:56:45 +0000

OK, now I got it — the important thing is to have one CDROM drive pointed at your “real” CDROM drive … then, once Vista starts complaining, you Edit the connection and point it at your ISO … then Vista will read the ISO.

It looks like the basic issue here is that Vista recognizes the “real” CDROM at startup, but not the ISO … so you have to have one real drive connected at startup or Vista thinks you actually don’t have any CDROM drives at all.

Bizarro …

Thanks ck and everyone …

By: boozedog

boozedog — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 14:53:32 +0000

Ugh, I didn’t have the second drive connected. I’ll wait a few minutes before posting next time. heh.