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Vista beta 1 is running under VMWare Workstation 5

I just installed Vista Beta 1 under VMWare workstation and I have two tips.

1. Vista won't format your virtual hardisk out of the box. Thanks to the guys from VMWare support forums here are two solutions:

  • Boot from Windows 2003 (or perhaps XP - I didn't try this) and format your partition then boot Vista (so you won't need to format the drive with Vista)
  • Use VMWare provided disk drivers - see this article (again, I didn't try this as first option worked fine)

2. When you install VMWare tools it won't enable your virtual network card automatically. So, after successful install of VMWare Tools and rebooting go to Device Manager, find the network card entry (under Other Devices) with an exclamation mark. Right click on it, pick Properties and Reinstall Driver ... button will enable the driver and network card will start working - voila, you can start using IE 7 now.

Here you go.

Published 28. julij 2005 10:59 by Miha Markic
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# re: Vista beta 1 is running under VMWare Workstation 5

28. julij 2005 11:30 by Oliver Sturm
IE 7 was the only reason you installed it? :-)

Thanks for the hints, I haven't tried doing it yet.

# re: Vista beta 1 is running under VMWare Workstation 5

28. julij 2005 11:54 by Miha Markic
Haha, no I just tried to run it and saw that there is no internet connection :-)

# re: Vista beta 1 is running under VMWare Workstation 5

28. julij 2005 14:19 by Peter Jausovec
Miha, did you try running VS.NET 2005 on it?

# re: Vista beta 1 is running under VMWare Workstation 5

28. julij 2005 16:14 by cgrant
I was successful in formatting the drive with just Vista, but it requires you to create the partition, then try to format it, then reboot. You will then be able to successfully format the drive on the next install attempt. Also, I needed to increase my partition size to something larger than 4GB (I chose 8GB) for it to have enough space to install.

# re: Vista beta 1 is running under VMWare Workstation 5

28. julij 2005 16:29 by Miha Markic
Peter: Since you are asking, I've tried with these results:
- Beta 2 TS: it won't even start an install complaining an error
- Beta 2 PRO: It will try an install, however, MSXML 6 parser (first item on the install list) will fail and thus nothing will install (not even attempt).
This was just a quick test. BTW, .net framework beta 2 is installed with Vista thus only VS.NET 2005 should work but it doesn't at least not easily.

cgrant: Thanks for the update.

# re: Vista beta 1 is running under VMWare Workstation 5

28. julij 2005 18:09 by Justin
I can't get the Network Card driver to install. I can specifically point it to the folder with the driver in:

c:\program_files\vmware\vmware_tools\drivers\vmxnet

But it still fails to install every time.

# re: Vista beta 1 is running under VMWare Workstation 5

28. julij 2005 18:31 by Miha Markic
Justin: The network card driver is installed when you install VMWare Tools. However, it is not working yet at that point. Thus follow my second tip (no need to install it manually).

# re: Vista beta 1 is running under VMWare Workstation 5

28. julij 2005 19:07 by Justin
Miha,

Thanks for the tip but I did try that at first. It failed which is why I was more specific with pointing it to a specific place for the driver.

# re: Vista beta 1 is running under VMWare Workstation 5

28. julij 2005 21:02 by cgrant
I'm having the same issues with installing the network driver. I just manually modified the .vmx file to add the "vmxnet" entry and am rebooting and will try it again (as per the VMWare knowledge base article on installing Longhorn)

# re: Vista beta 1 is running under VMWare Workstation 5

28. julij 2005 22:21 by cgrant
Just rebooted and Vista found a new device, but had problems installing the driver. I then clicked on the balloon and then the Add New Hardware wizard started up again and started searching for drivers. I told it to look in C:\Program Files\VMware\VMWare Tools\Drivers\vmxnet. It then worked...

# Vista beta 1 is running under VMWare Workstation 5 (Update)

29. julij 2005 11:06 by RightHand blogs
After I published my original post about installing Vista beta 1 under VMWare Workstation 5, many...

# re: Vista beta 1 is running under VMWare Workstation 5

29. julij 2005 21:42 by SLRVision
I've tried with Windows Vista Server beta 1 and I have a problem with the network card. Whatever I try, it tells me there's an error installing the driver (for both VMXnet and VLance). Any idea ?
Thanks

# re: Vista beta 1 is running under VMWare Workstation 5

29. julij 2005 21:45 by SLRVision
I'm using GSX 3.2 Server by the way

# re: Vista beta 1 is running under VMWare Workstation 5

30. julij 2005 9:36 by Benny
No go for me, have formatted drive under XP and Vista says it is fine but as soon as it starts the install, says it cannot find a locally attached drive to store temporary files and the setup exits. I am using an IDE image (no go with SCSI either).

# re: Vista beta 1 is running under VMWare Workstation 5

30. julij 2005 10:46 by Miha Markic
SLRVision: Sorry, I don't have GSX thus I don't have a clue.

Benny: Are you using Workstation 5? Did you try the create partition/reboot/format trick?

# re: Vista beta 1 is running under VMWare Workstation 5

30. julij 2005 13:26 by Benny
Yes, VMWare 5, strangely enough I have exactly the same problem under Virtual PC 2004. I am using the MSDN ISO image of longhorn beta 1, I downloaded it today, dont particularly want to download it again I might add.

I tried the reboot/format thing with VMWare, the partition seems fine, but Windows cannot install due to a problem with the temp files.

# re: Vista beta 1 is running under VMWare Workstation 5

30. julij 2005 16:56 by GT
@ Benny

Are you getting exactly this error:

"Setup was unable to locate locally attached hard drive suitable for holding temporary Setup files."

After this, setup says something about TAPI32.

I'm getting the above and no matter what i do, i can't install Vista to VM5.

Since lots of VMW5 users installed succesfully, it's weird to have error.

# re: Vista beta 1 is running under VMWare Workstation 5

31. julij 2005 3:56 by sekhar
Hi,
I was able to install the Beta on VMware workstation..however i have issue with the Audio controller...any one having similar issues.....

# re: Vista beta 1 is running under VMWare Workstation 5

31. julij 2005 20:53 by David Torres
I'm having issues with the Audio controller as well. Any help would be great!

# re: Vista beta 1 is running under VMWare Workstation 5

31. julij 2005 21:47 by Dirk B
I'm trying in under VMWare 4.5.2 and can't get the ethernet control to work.
Tried each trick I read here and in the VMWare KB. Anybody any luck with VMWare 4.5.2 and Vista beta 1?


dirk.

# re: Vista beta 1 is running under VMWare Workstation 5

2. avgust 2005 5:42 by Benny
"Setup was unable to locate locally attached hard drive suitable for holding temporary Setup files."

After this, setup says something about TAPI32.

Yes, this is exactly the error I am getting under VMWare 5, and also Virtual PC, so I am leaning toward the copy of Vista rather than a virtual machine issue but at 2.7GB download, I dont particularly want to download it again. Perhaps I will try one of the versions doing the rounds of the bit torrent scene rather than the legitimate copy my MSDN universal offers me. Or I could wait for my next MSDN DVD's to arrive and try a hard copy version.

# re: Vista beta 1 is running under VMWare Workstation 5

2. avgust 2005 5:49 by travis
Mount the windows.iso image on the vmware tools cd and search it for the network driver. As for sound, go to soundblaster.com, drivers page, soundblaster->others->16 pci, select win xp and drivers. You want the second result

Driver release for SB PCI 128 Vibra / PCI 16 (Models CT 481x & 4740) (4.20 MB)

That should get sound working, im using vmware 5

# re: Vista beta 1 is running under VMWare Workstation 5

2. avgust 2005 9:46 by dirk B
Little follow-up on my question around VMware 4.5.2 and Vista.
After a lot of testing and using all kind of tricks I found on the internet I couldn't get the network to work :-(
Updating to VMWare v5 and using the "2." as described by Miha solved the network problem. I have Vista now running with network access :-)

The tip from "travis" for the sound also worked fine for me.

Thanks to all who gave tips on this page.


dirk.

# re: Vista beta 1 is running under VMWare Workstation 5

2. avgust 2005 23:29 by Eric
I was able to install the nic using the windows.iso file that ships with version 5 on a 4.5.2 version without any issue. The drivers on the support tools that come with version 4.5.2 don't install.

# re: Vista beta 1 is running under VMWare Workstation 5

4. avgust 2005 3:09 by Matt
In response to the Unable to find a local drive errors, have you tried using the SCSI interface option instead of IDE.

First time round I used IDE and received the same error. However second attempt I tried SCSI and everything was fine.

# re: Vista beta 1 is running under VMWare Workstation 5

4. avgust 2005 16:12 by Tristan
"Setup was unable to locate locally attached hard drive suitable for holding temporary Setup files."
If you already have a partition formated, this error comes because you do not have enough space: 6GB is not enough, 10 is OK.
I succed to install Vista on VMware Workstation 5 and VMware ESX 2.5.0. No specific problem except with vmxnet.

# re: Vista beta 1 is running under VMWare Workstation 5

8. avgust 2005 14:51 by herbert
Hi
I want to tell everybody when you install Vista on GSX 3.2 use the networkdriver from the workstation 5.xx ( windows.iso)

# re: Vista beta 1 is running under VMWare Workstation 5

7. september 2005 19:28 by antti
I installed Vista Beta 1 on a MS Virtual PC 2004 and got the same error "Setup was unable to locate locally attached hard drive suitable for holding temporary Setup files."

Ran XP Pro setup, formatted the drive (8GB) and setup started rolling.

# re: Vista beta 1 is running under VMWare Workstation 5

30. junij 2006 10:46 by foto:mitru©
where i can download the Windows Vista  VMware Tools for Networking?
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