Installing the Guest OS

OK, I've seen many questions on the subject but no clear answer to me.   I 
have installed VPC 2007.  I have configured a new VPC.  no matter what I do I 
cannot get the OS to install.  I have tried putting the CD on 
Primary/Secondary.  Tell it to use the physical CD (f:) in my case.  Even got 
into the bios set up to tell it to boot from CD.

Can someone please help!

David Hay
 XXXX@XXXXX.COM 

What OS are you trying to install...? Is the CD bootable...? 

which OS are you trying to install???
and what if anything is on the screen.... error messages...????








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I have tried vista, as well as win 200 pro.  both cd's are bootable.  the 
message on the screen is

Reboot and select proper boot device
or insert media in selected boot device

How do I select the boot device..  when I just put in the CD, the host 
system tried to read it, not the virtual one...

1) Insert the media

2) When the host system tries to read it, hit Cancel and/or close the 
Explorer window which has just popped up

3) In VPC, launch your guest and wait for the "Reboot and select proper boot 
device" message

4) On the menu, click CD, Use physical drive [X]:

5) Reboot your guest by hitting AltGr-Delete or by using the menu 

On Wed, 14 Feb 2007 18:16:10 -0800, David Hay




This means that the guest has not captured the physical CD drive!

Rightclick the CD icon in the bottom of the guest window and tell it
to capture your physical drive. Then on the Action menu use the reset
command. Now the boot will start.

But of course first you have to cancel the autorun of the CD on your
host system! And move off the CD drive in Windows Explorer.

An altertative is to use WinImage to create an ISO image of your
install CD, then drag this image on top of the guest window CD icon to
capture it. Then use Action/Reset to restart the guest.
Much faster and more secure install running from ISO images.


Bo Berglund
bo.berglund(at)nospam.telia.com

Thanks, I got it going finally!  only prob now is 64 bit guest support :(

For that, currently at least, you will need to use VMWare... 

Grabau,

I'm having the same problem as David Hay I have Vista Business as the host 
and VPC 2007 I'm trying to get XP Pro to install as the guest OS.  The XP Pro 
install starts in the VPC window, I'm getting the message "Setup is 
inspecting your computer's hardware configuration"  then the next DOS screen 
Windows setup however just after that it hangs.  The CD Rom drive is set to 
be used as the physical drive D (the CD ROM drive is drive D)...  I'm not 
getting any error messages it just hangs and will not install.

Any ideas?

Thanks,
Jr.

Hope this helps.  I noticed on my machine that the default boot order is hdd 
--> fdd --> cdrom.  If you press "del" while the VM is booting, you'll get a 
good old fashioned BIOS.  Change the boot order, then use the ISO or real 
disc and you should be good.

Chris

I'm not sure if this was the problem I had when trying to install XP as the 
guest OS on my Vista machine or not,  what I noticed was the amount of RAM 
was 0 (zero) my machine only had 512mb and it runs Vista pretty good but I 
don't there is enough RAM to install the guest OS so thats something you can 
look in to...

The install would start but hand right after that...

Thanks,
Jr.

I'm not sure if this was the problem I had when trying to install XP as the 
guest OS on my Vista machine or not,  what I noticed was the amount of RAM 
was 0 (zero) my machine only had 512mb and it runs Vista pretty good but I 
don't there is enough RAM to install the guest OS so thats something you can 
look in to...

The install would start but hand right after that...

Thanks,
Jr.

When running Vista as the host OS, you need more than 512M of RAM to
run Virtual PC, as the minimum RAM requirement for Vista is 512M.

-- 
Bob Comer <Microsoft MVP  Windows - Virtual Machine>



On Tue, 1 May 2007 06:35:01 -0700, JrJoseph