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Actually what has happened is that Vista Setup is already in graphics mode trying to do things, but something about the way it switches the display adapter into graphics mode is not working right on VMWare.
I hope this helps someone because it totally freaked me out this evening. I rebooted this evening, the first reboot since March, in fact, and blue-screened (BSOD) upon startup. At this point I was in a blue screen "loop" with the ominous message "INTERNAL_POWER_ERROR" on the blue screen. I started cussing Vista out and panicking, but this machine has been exceedingly stable since I built it last year and I reboot only every few months. I built it to be stable and I trust the machine.
Working backwards, the last and only interesting thing I installed was VMWare Player for Windows. I had some trepidation at the time of the install because I am not a fan of the way that VMWare adds virtual network devices that are listed in Network Connections, but it came highly recommended from respected power users I know and I needed it to install a prepared Suse VM from the Mono folks.
I looked all over and checked out the VMWare Forums and no one at VMWare has acknowleded the problem in a Googl-eable way. I can tell you this, however. I am using a Quad-proc machine with an MSI motherboard with the latest BIOs and a buttload of USB devices. The only way I could get the system to boot up was to remove ALL the USB devices. ALL of them, to be clear, save one wired USB Keyboard that I used to log in and remove VMWare.
My guts says that this is a bug in the VMWare USB bridging code (the stuff in VMWare that lets you use USB devices inside a VM) or it's somewhere in the USB drivers in Windows. I have the Crash Dumps if you work for VMWare and you're interested. I'll WinDBG them later this week.
UPDATE: Installed Windows Debugging Tools (WinDbg.exe) and analyzed the crash dump and it's the VMWare Keyboard Driver, of all things. Perhaps VMWare doesn't like my Wireless USB Keyboard? Mental note, relearn WinDbg'ing.
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I decided for my educational purposes that I will be needing Windows Vista OS to run a few applications only avaliable to a PC. So I decided to take advantage of the promotional discount offer Microsoft offers to students and purchased Windows Vista Ultimate. Along with that, I purchased and downloaded VMware Fusion for Mac OS X in order to run a virtual machine.
After completing the download of the file, I quickly noticed that the Vista installer file was a setup.exe file format. Correct me if I am wrong, but Fusion only allows a disk image file or .iso format to successfully establish a virtual machine on a Mac.
The next step I took involved using a PC to extract the Vista file and its contents. The outcome was a Vista folder that contained the installer file within, which allowed to me install Vista on the existing PC.
When transferring the folder, via flash drive, onto my Macbook, I noticed that the inital setup file was still it its executable format. I stopped here because I was unable to establish a connection.
Since I had the oscdimg.exe file from the Windows Automated Installation Kit (AIK) I gave it a try and it worked. In other words using the Vista Folder and its contents that was created by you executing the files you downloaded you should be able to create a Bootable ISO Image that you can then use to create a DVD with if you have the right software for burning an ISO Image to DVD. (Maybe you could do this on the Mac) Although if you want you don't even need to burn the ISO Image to DVD just copy it over to the Mac and assign it to the CD/DVD in the Virtual Machines Settings.
Just so you know it took me about 20 minutes to do a search on Google and create the ISO Image and test that I could boot a Virtual Machine in Fusion and if you have to download and install the Windows Automated Installation Kit (AIK) to get the oscdimg.exe file it will obviously take you a bit longer however it's doable and the safest solution vs trying to get the oscdimg.exe or cdimage.exe file from an illegally posted link to the file only.
Thanks to WoodyZ for all your help. I got it to work, but for some odd reason my product key is not allowing me to install Windows on the virtual machine. It reads, in order for me to use my product key I must continue with the existing windows system I previously used.
You cannot use the Upgrade Version using the Boot Camp Assistant in OS X or Windows Easy Install in VMware Fusion however you can use information in the following link to do a manual install: How to Clean Install Windows Vista with Upgrade Media
I am a bit of a newb with virtual machines, so go easy on me. I am currently dual-booting Windows 7 and Windows Vista. I want to convert the Vista installation into a virtual machine, and then remove that physical partition (the virtual hard disk will be on my USB drive).
I managed to create a virtual hard disk of Vista using the 'Disk2vhd' application. However, when I try to create a virtual machine in Virtual PC 2007 (running on my Windows 7), Vista doesn't load. Safe load doesn't work either, and gets stuck on crcdisk.sys.
I mounted (attached) the VHD using Windows 7 diskpart utility then renamed the active hal.dll file in c:\windows\system32 to hal-multi.dll (it should be safe to just delete it since it's really just a copy of halmacpi.dll that is in the same directory but I was being extra cautious). I then made a copy of halacpi.dll (the single-CPU hal.dll) and renamed it hal.dll. I then unmounted the vdisk and attempted to boot the VM again. It worked! :)
I also had this problem. The original physical system had an SATA interface. I did the HAL swap but was still getting the BSOD after crcdisk.sys when booting up the virtual instance. To get it working, I ran through the registry changes here:
The other catch was I had already made a VHD image. To change the registy values I booted the virtual instance with the NT Offline Password tool (which is also an offline registry editor). Thankfully, I didn't have to recreate the VHD file. In this tool ControlSet001 is the same as CurrentControlSet (at least in my case).
Unfortunately, none of the solutions (Virtual PC, Parallels, VMWare) will support hardware-graphics virtualization for quite some time, so there goes any chance of Aero Glass in a virtual environment.
This is the worst part about testing applications with Vista. We have been using VMWare each time a new OS comes out from Microsoft. Now with the Aero glass it is impossible to do testing (With applications that might be affected by Aero) without actually setting up a machine running Vista, with the latest and greatest video card. Hopefully one of the VM companies will come out with a solution soon. It sure would make development a lot easier.
Virtual PC 2004 and 2007 host Ubuntu just fine once you get past the fact that VPC wants you to run 16-bit graphics, and Ubuntu defaults to 24-bit. Here is just one of many articles on how to get around it:
VM Ware (I am comparing VM Ware Workstation again Virtual PC) is such a nicely refined product, and Virtual PC is obviously something that Microsoft threw out there as soon as it could to try to compete in this market that VM Ware dominates.
Connectix Virtual PC was not a very good application, and it is what Virtual PC is built on. Microsoft purchased the product from Connectix back a few years ago because it realized that it wanted to get into the virtualization market, and VM Ware was the only serious player in town.
However, on my notebook, with the Host as Windows Vista and Guest as Ubuntu, I can only see the thumb drives on my Vista. No way to see thumb drives on my Ubuntu, even when I disable the thumb drives on the Vista system.
VMWServer does have USB support. You just need to install a virtual USB controller (as simple as shutting the machine down, going into the Hardware Specs and adding it). Then you will have the option to pass through USB devices to the Virtual Machine.
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This post covers the steps you need to take, and gives you pre-packed files to get your Vista virtual machine up and running again after moving the physical disk, or installing it into a different computer for some reason or another. It took me forever to figure this out, reading one too many articles and KB entries so I decided to share.
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