Comments on: Installing Vista Beta 2 in VMware

By: Dan Buhler

Dan Buhler — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 17:44:24 +0000

Thanks Manic!

Problem solved. You’re a genius.

By: Manic

Manic — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 12:16:01 +0000

One way of installing this is by creating an ISO image and loading it using Daemon Tools. Then point the drive in VMWare to the Daemon tools drive and load from that. Good luck!

By: John T

John T — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 02:23:14 +0000

Ya, I just downloaded the latest version of 32 bit vista from MSDN too and it seems that the bug hasn’t been fixed. This however, seems to be a problem with vmware, not vista. It seems to not be able to use the virtual DVD drive for some reason. Guess it has to actually be a known make or something. I’d suggest talking w/ vmware to update their Vista emulation infrastructure.

By: John

John — Fri, 15 Dec 2006 15:39:25 +0000

Hello!

I recently downloaded Vista Enterprise edition from my MSDN subscription (a 2GB DVD iso, at least it’s smaler now ). Anyways I tried installing Vista on VMWare Server 1.0.1 and got the same message. It appears that this bug didn’t make it into the final release.

I have been trying to find more information on this issue and have been unsuccessful. Any ideas?

By: Bob

Bob — Fri, 15 Sep 2006 01:55:44 +0000

The only suggestion I can make is to try a different DVD drive. There seems to be a problem with LG readers and Vista.

By: juls

juls — Mon, 11 Sep 2006 16:20:43 +0000

Hi there,

Thank you for your response.

I’m sorry I din’t explain myself properly. I have the RC1 version and tried a few times to install vista on a second partion of my HD, but with no luck. It comes up with “A required CD/DVD drive device is missing” error. I updaeted all drivers of m PC but still no luck.
When I tried it on VPC it installed fine without any errors, but VPC is very-very slow. I googled the error but still haven’t found a solution to it.

Any suggestions or ideas?

By: Bob

Bob — Mon, 11 Sep 2006 15:15:25 +0000

I would say that it’s probably not possible to use VPC to install Vista on your hard disk. Windows is able to detect and install drivers on boot for most hardware devices. There are a few devices that it cannot do this for, such as motherboard components. Those drivers are installed and configured during Windows setup because they are required to boot the kernel.

I suspect that if you tried this, you would likely get a STOP screen during boot. Remember this software is still in beta, so you may have better luck with RC1.

By: juls

juls — Mon, 11 Sep 2006 12:14:57 +0000

Hi there,

I’m having the same problem “A required CD/DVD drive device driver is missing” —
I tried different drivers but with no luck. I have PVC installed and it wors fine.
Is it possible to use VPC to install vista on my HDD so I can boot from it?
Hope I was clear enough..

All the best