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VMWare And Vista/Longhorn
Wednesday 9th May, 2007 14:45 Comments: 2
In the past I've had problems installing the Beta, pre-RC and RC versions of Vista, and more recently I've had trouble installing Longhorn, within VMWare. Telling it to use an ISO image would make the Windows installer claim it couldn't see the DVD (despite the fact it had managed to see it to get that far in the first place). My workaround was to burn the image onto a DVD-RW so the installer would see the proper DVD drive and everything worked. But I've discovered a new method, which saves me burning a DVD-RW: mount a second DVD-ROM drive using the same ISO image and exactly the same settings. For some reason, having a second (identical) drive is enough for it to work. Don't ask me why. It works. Leave it at that.
Avatar Yamahito - Wednesday 9th May, 2007 14:54
Sounds like a deliberate disable-ment of ISO mounting type DVD drivers to me... maybe that's too cynical.
Avatar Robert - Wednesday 9th May, 2007 16:09
I think it's the installer being quirky. I just discovered that it doesn't like having 4 hard disks - I had to remove the three 1.0GB drives in order to install on the very same 8GB drive that it was previously complaining about. I have no idea why.
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