Windows Vista Beta 1 on Virtual PC 2004


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Has anyone been sucessfull in installing Vista Beta 1 on Virtual PC 2004?

My install stalled after first restart, about two hours into the install with this error;

Installation Failed. Please restart

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Hello,

My install went fine. Took a while though. Right now im working on some network problems, but I dont think they are related to vista specifically.

This is on Virtual PC 2004 SP1.

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It installed without any problems on VMware Workstation 5.0, except for missing drivers for VGA and NIC. But the drivers in VMware Tools worked.

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i got it working fine on virtual pc but i have the same problem of a 4bit colour depth...

im more interested in getting it working in dual boot but i've hit the wall of installing the RAID 0 drivers so that it can find the drives... :unsure:

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i got it working fine on virtual pc but i have the same problem of a 4bit colour depth...

im more interested in getting it working in dual boot but i've hit the wall of installing the RAID 0 drivers so that it can find the drives... :unsure:

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If you go to the Action menu and select Install or Update Virtual PC Additions and follow the wizard in the virtual pc itself, the vga driver will be upgraded and you'll be able to select 32 bit color depth and a higher desktop resolution..

I got it working as well.

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It took me some time to get it working in vmware 5 - but just follow this guide from vmare forums and it will save you a lot of time:

1. Create a new VM

2. Memory 512MB

3. Hard Disk (IED 0:0) 20GB

4. CD-ROM (IDE 1:0) Pointing to the ISO Image

5. Ethernet 1 "Bridged"

Start VM

1. Boots the DVD

2. When you get to the part where it ask to pick the disk, delete the existing partition.

3. Recreate the partition

4. Exit the install and reboot the VM

5. During the VM BIOS hit F2 then change the boot order to have the CD/DVD be the first boot device

6. Save and Exit the BIOS

7. When you get to the part where it ask to pick the disk again, highlight then choose format

8. Now select again then choose install

9. It will now start the installation process

10. After a couple of reboots and 45 minutes later (depending on your host machine), the install will be done.

11. You are now logged in but no network, video, and sound

12. Install the VMware tools to get the video going

13. After VMWare Tools reboot and the video will be better

14. Still no network or sound, active the VMware tools so the VM can see the tools on drive D:

15. Goto Device manager, right click the ethernet controller, go to properties, then reinstall the driver.

16. During the reinstall it search the CD-ROM (vmware tools) for the right network driver.

17. You should now have network and able to surf the Internet with IE 7, but still no sound

18. Surf to www.soundblaster.com

19. select drivers from the right bottom panel

20. then North America/United States/English then Go

21 then choose Sound Blaster/Other/16PCI then click Next

22. Choose English/Windows XP/Drivers then Go

23. Download the "Driver release for SB PCI 128 Vibra / PCI 16"

24. Run the installer then reboot and viola you should have sound.

Hope all of this help you guys out.

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Are you using the .iso directly?  If not try doing that it should work without any problems.

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Nope. Burned on to a DVD. I will try and let you all know.

Update: Here is the help file info on DVD Capture

"Virtual PC supports .ISO images to a maximum file size of 2.2 gigabytes. "

Moreover I get this error when I do capture ISO image:

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Update 2: Got it working. You need to make CD/DVD as your primary controller and RESTART Virtual PC 2004 (IMPORTANT).

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Thanks.

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I installed windows vista beta 1 on virtual pc 2004 and is look working fine but I have a little problem with the windows because is not transparent the active borders and toolbars...Anyone who know how I can fix this??

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I installed windows vista beta 1 on virtual pc 2004 and is look working fine but I have a little problem with the windows because is not transparent the active borders and toolbars...Anyone who know how I can fix this??

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Impossible. Virtual PC would not allow hardware accelleration therefore the Aero experience will not be available.

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How did everyone get past the part of installation where you select the partition to install it on? When I try it it tells me that it cannot find a hard disk and will not let me continue with the installation.

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VirtualPC and Vista where giving me the ****s, so I used VMware and it actually is better then VirtualPC by a long shot (Doesn't support ISO's bigger then 2GB :rolleyes:). Just had to do the old boot-into-xp-and-format-and-reset-virtual-machine trick.

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I tried to install on Virtual PC 2004 but the screen went black and stayed that way after "Windows is loading files" is finished.

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I had the same problem. Here's what I did.

1.) Create a new Virtual Machine

2.) Select Windows XP as OS

3.) Select 256 MB RAM or more (with 256 MB it's very slow)

4.) Create a virtual hard disk

From there I got a blackscreen too as you get.

I used my Windows ME Startup-Diskette on my virtual machine and FDISK to create a partition on the virtual hard disk.

Then I installed Windows Vista.

If you got only 4-Bit-Colors after install, install the Virtual Machines Additions on your virtual machine that are on your Virtual PC-CD.

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sorry if this is posted where do i get Windows Vista Beta and what is VirtualPC??

Raiders

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forget Vista on virtual PC, you can use Alcohol 120% to mount a virtual drive, then install it on a separate partition. Vista Beta 1 isn't all that great btw. Just different somewhat.

Now can anyone tell me how to run MacOSX on virtual PC? I'd like to test drive that. But larglely I'm thinking OSX isn't soo good just different from XP.

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VirtualPC and Vista where giving me the ****s, so I used VMware and it actually is better then VirtualPC by a long shot (Doesn't support ISO's bigger then 2GB :rolleyes:). Just had to do the old boot-into-xp-and-format-and-reset-virtual-machine trick.

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agree :) VMware is better than MS VPC :yes:

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