Sent: 07/13/2008
From: stu
Message:i am running it through vmware player sorry i forgot about that.
"Bo Berglund" wrote:
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> On Sun, 13 Jul 2008 02:45:00 -0700, stu
> <(email address - cut out)> wrote:
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> >HI. I am currently running xp on my virtual pc but i am trying to do a clean
> >install of server 2003 on it but setup says it can't find any virtual hard
> >disks can anyone help me please.
>
> Why use the existing XP guest for this????
> Use the VPC2007 Wizard to create a new guest instead and install the
> W2003 server into that in the normal way, much simpler and better.
>
>
Sent: 07/13/2008
From: Borked Pseudo Mailed <(email address - cut out)>
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"Mark Rae [MVP]" <(email address - cut out)> wrote:
And your reply helps how, hypocrite?
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> "FACE" <(email address - cut out)> wrote in message
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> > (Yes, this is off-topic for this group, but what the heck....)
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> Yeah - what would you care about that, eh...?
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Sent: 07/13/2008
From: FACE <(email address - cut out)>
Message:From stu <(email address - cut out)>, in microsoft.public.virtualpc on
Sun, 13 Jul 2008 09:01:21 -0700 :
It appears that VMWare has a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2 Enterprise
Edition Virtual Appliance.
It is a prebuilt virtual machine.
Download it at http://www.vmware.com/appliances/directory/649
If it is like the pre-built appliance I downloaded it will be filetype F7z
(IIRC) and WInRAR will handle that.
So download it, unzip it, open VMWare Player and click on the "open" icon,
browse to the where you unzipped it, click on the .vmx file and you should
be good to go (at least with that virtual machine)...........
I have done this all of once, several weeks ago, so take the above as a
good-faith guide..............
(Yes, this is off-topic for this group, but what the heck....)
FACE
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>i am running it through vmware player sorry i forgot about that.
>
>"Bo Berglund" wrote:
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>> On Sun, 13 Jul 2008 02:45:00 -0700, stu
>> <(email address - cut out)> wrote:
>>
>> >HI. I am currently running xp on my virtual pc but i am trying to do a clean
>> >install of server 2003 on it but setup says it can't find any virtual hard
>> >disks can anyone help me please.
>>
>> Why use the existing XP guest for this????
>> Use the VPC2007 Wizard to create a new guest instead and install the
>> W2003 server into that in the normal way, much simpler and better.
>>
>>
Sent: 07/13/2008
From: Bo Berglund <(email address - cut out)>
Message:On Sun, 13 Jul 2008 02:45:00 -0700, stu
<(email address - cut out)> wrote:
Why use the existing XP guest for this????
Use the VPC2007 Wizard to create a new guest instead and install the
W2003 server into that in the normal way, much simpler and better.
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>HI. I am currently running xp on my virtual pc but i am trying to do a clean
>install of server 2003 on it but setup says it can't find any virtual hard
>disks can anyone help me please.
Sent: 07/13/2008
From: FACE <(email address - cut out)>
Message:From "Mark Rae [MVP]" <(email address - cut out)>, in
microsoft.public.virtualpc on Sun, 13 Jul 2008 19:13:33 +0100 :
Very little, but then I just said that......didn't I?
Did you know that according to Newsweek, Obama and McCain are now very close
in the polls?
FACE
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>"FACE" <(email address - cut out)> wrote in message
>news:(email address - cut out)...
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>> (Yes, this is off-topic for this group, but what the heck....)
>
>Yeah - what would you care about that, eh...?
Sent: 07/13/2008
From: "Mark Rae [MVP]" <(email address - cut out)>
Message:"stu" <(email address - cut out)> wrote in message
news:(email address - cut out)...
Not much point posting in here, then...
What did they tell you in the VMWare newsgroups / forums...?
--
Mark Rae
ASP.NET MVP
http://www.markrae.net
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> I am running it through VMWare Player - sorry I forgot about that.
Sent: 07/13/2008
From: Bo Berglund <(email address - cut out)>
Message:On Sun, 13 Jul 2008 09:01:21 -0700, stu
<(email address - cut out)> wrote:
Which means that it is OT here (Virtual PC 2007 is a Microsoft
product)....
However, you could still create a new guest even though you use VMWare
Player, which does not come with any built-in means for creating a
guest...
If you google you will find sites that offer to create a new guest for
Player and then you can download all the needed files in a small zip
archive and get going.
Here is a selection:
http://www.easyvmx.com/
http://www.ffnn.nl/pages/articles/linux/vmware-player-image-creation.php
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>"Bo Berglund" wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 13 Jul 2008 02:45:00 -0700, stu
>> <(email address - cut out)> wrote:
>>
>> >HI. I am currently running xp on my virtual pc but i am trying to do a clean
>> >install of server 2003 on it but setup says it can't find any virtual hard
>> >disks can anyone help me please.
>>
>> Why use the existing XP guest for this????
>> Use the VPC2007 Wizard to create a new guest instead and install the
>> W2003 server into that in the normal way, much simpler and better.
>>
>i am running it through vmware player sorry i forgot about that.
>
Sent: 07/13/2008
From: "Mark Rae [MVP]" <(email address - cut out)>
Message:"FACE" <(email address - cut out)> wrote in message
news:(email address - cut out)...
Yeah - what would you care about that, eh...?
--
Mark Rae
ASP.NET MVP
http://www.markrae.net
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> (Yes, this is off-topic for this group, but what the heck....)
Sent: 07/14/2008
From: "Tim Walsh" <(email address - cut out)>
Message:Well that explains it, VPC won't recognize the VMWare hard drive as a valid
virtual hard drive, hence the message. You'll just need to use the VPC menus
and create a new virtual hard drive and attach it to your VM that you plan
on running in VPC.
The easiest way is what was suggested earlier, use the wizard and create a
new VM.
"stu" <(email address - cut out)> wrote in message
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>i am running it through vmware player sorry i forgot about that.
>
> "Bo Berglund" wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 13 Jul 2008 02:45:00 -0700, stu
>> <(email address - cut out)> wrote:
>>
>> >HI. I am currently running xp on my virtual pc but i am trying to do a
>> >clean
>> >install of server 2003 on it but setup says it can't find any virtual
>> >hard
>> >disks can anyone help me please.
>>
>> Why use the existing XP guest for this????
>> Use the VPC2007 Wizard to create a new guest instead and install the
>> W2003 server into that in the normal way, much simpler and better.
>>
>>
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