It seems that this is going to become my hobby. Wouldn't it be boring if it were possible to install Vista by just running the setup? On Saturday I complained that Vista RC2 can't be installed on VMware Workstation because the Vista setup claimed that there is a CD/DVD driver missing. One of my readers mailed me the solution to this new problem. Thanks!
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One has to add a second CD/DVD drive. When Vista setup is hallucinating about missing drivers, you have to load the ISO file in the second virtual CD/DVD and here you go.
This is obviously a bug. They fixed the bug with the graphics card driver and added a new one. If you ask me, I'd say that Microsoft's developers are working under very high pressure. If they really keep the release date, I wouldn't expect a Windows Vista that you want to deploy in a corporate environment.
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Update: Please, check out this article about Vista final and VMware Workstation.
Doesn’t work for me either.
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.
Thanks! It worked amazing. I’ve been searching the web for days to find the soloution
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 😉
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.
I mean in VMware Workstation THANKX
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.
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..
>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.