windows vista in vmware

[Red Squirrel]

So I booted in vmware off win vista cd. That alone should tell that the system can read the cdrom. started the setup, then it decided it can't see the cdrom anymore, and it wants drivers for it. Wont let me go further. Drivers for a cdrom drive? huh? never needed that before, it just works. Anyone know a way around this? I want to setup a vm to play around with and stuff.

 

[tfinch2]

Vista does not come with a driver that supports VMware CD-ROM emulation.

Mount this to the Vista virtual machine:

http://depositfiles.com/files/1959283

It should be the driver you need.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Thats messed up though. Even windows 95 does not require this and it was made before VMware even existed.... sad lol.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Nice I got it working with that image. I was laughing at how the windows vista setup program uses more ram then my windows xp installed os lol. This will be fun. Totally killing my VM server LOL. Will be useful for helpdesk though, easier to walk users through stuff when you got it in front of you.