VMware
Installing Vista Beta 2 in VMware
by Bob on 20 June 2006, under VMware, Vista, Windows
Like many other developers, I wanted a chance to play with Windows Vista Beta 2. So I downloaded the whopping 3.2 GB DVD image (in twelve minutes). Since I don’t have a spare machine powerful enough to handle it, I decided to install Vista in a VMware virtual machine. This was, to say the least, not a clean and pleasant experience.
I opened my existing “Beta 1″ virtual machine with 256 MB of RAM and 8 GB of hard disk space, set the ISO as the boot media, and started it. Setup started, but then presented me with this:
The file WinSetup.dll could not be loaded or is corrupt. Setup cannot continue.
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