Running Windows Vista Beta 1 under Virtual PC / Virtual Server

re: Running Windows Vista Beta 1 under Virtual PC / Virtual Server

WashFL — Fri, 26 Aug 2005 18:07:02 GMT

I foudn this article after reading here about Diskpart... ( http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnxpesp2/html/tchHowToDemonstrateWindowsXPEmbeddedUsingVirtualPC.asp)

Partition the Disk

To start your new Virtual Machine, use the Windows PE CD (CD 1 of your Windows Embedded tools). (The Windows XP Embedded evaluation CD is available at this web site.

It is also available from a Microsoft Embedded Authorized Distributor.
To partition the disk:

1. Type the following command from a command prompt: DISKPART
2. Type the following commands to create the partition:

SELECT DISK 0
CLEAN
CREATE PARTITION PRIMARY
This creates a 16 GB partition.
3. Type the following command to verify the partition:

LIST PARTITION

4. Type the following commands to verify that the partition is active:

SELECT PARTITION 1
ACTIVE

5. Type EXIT to quit DISKPART.
6. Type EXIT again to reboot Windows PE.

Format the Partition

At the command prompt, type the following command to format the new partition:

FORMAT C: /FS:NTFS /q

I rebooted & pressed SHIFT-F10 and click "Install Now" which opens a command window. Typed diskpart

SELECT DISK 0
CLEAN
CREATE PARTITION PRIMARY
LIST PARTITION
SELECT PARTITION 1
ACTIVE
FORMAT

re: Running Windows Vista Beta 1 under Virtual PC / Virtual Server

mike — Fri, 19 Aug 2005 01:02:28 GMT

I got it to work on the desktop - I had 1GB total RAM, and was able to let the Virtual Machine have 512MB.

The performance, however, is so bad that, at this point, installing it is only useful for seeing that it can be done. [It's like running Windows XP under PearPC if Windows XP was for the PowerPC CPU type.]

re: Running Windows Vista Beta 1 under Virtual PC / Virtual Server

Siva Mateti — Tue, 16 Aug 2005 20:36:41 GMT

I installed Vista on VPC on my laptop. But whenever I come back from sleep mode, the vpc screen is not refreshing by itself. I had to switch between full screen mode to window mode and vice-versa to see any affects such as opening a menu etc. This is very nagging and I had to restart host OS to avoid this.

Do you know what could be the problem?

re: Running Windows Vista Beta 1 under Virtual PC / Virtual Server

Benjamin Armstrong — Tue, 16 Aug 2005 09:17:53 GMT

Mike -

We have had a number of reports of Vista installs simply failing because not enough memory was assigned to the virtual machine.

Bhagiratha -

You will need to enable ACPI in the BIOS of the virtual machine (you can get into this by hitting DEL as soon as the virtual machine boots).

Cheers,
Ben

re: Running Windows Vista Beta 1 under Virtual PC / Virtual Server

Bhagiratha — Tue, 16 Aug 2005 08:40:13 GMT

I tried to install windows vista beta under Virtual PC 7.02 which is installed on my Powermac G5. during the windows boot process, I get this following error:

Windows Boot Manager has experienced a problem.

Status: 0xc0000225

Info: Windows failed to load because the firmware (BIOS) is not ACPI compatible.

File: ¶ (a strange looking character that looks like the letter F, but backwards).

Does anyone have any idea how I can bypass this. Thanks

re: Running Windows Vista Beta 1 under Virtual PC / Virtual Server

mike — Sun, 14 Aug 2005 02:10:57 GMT

I got VPC to boot directly off of the DVD media on an AMD64 laptop. On an AMD XP desktop, the same media won't boot. [My DVD writer was configured as drive 'I' on the desktop]

Also, the install failed on the notebook - because I could not allocate more than 256MB of RAM - the installer would simply [after using diskpart and rebooting] launch, hang, then quit.

...odd or what?

re: Running Windows Vista Beta 1 under Virtual PC / Virtual Server

Carlos — Fri, 12 Aug 2005 18:16:55 GMT

Finally !!!!!

After upgrading Virtual Server 2005 with SP1 Beta my Windows Vista work just fine.

re: Running Windows Vista Beta 1 under Virtual PC / Virtual Server

John — Thu, 11 Aug 2005 19:57:55 GMT

I cannot find a way to get VPC to show DVD instead of CDROM. When I put in a Bootable DVD
(made from the released DVD iso image of Vista) I just get an error of 'Reboot and Select proper Boot device or Insert Boot Media in selected Boot device' Any Ideas?

re: Running Windows Vista Beta 1 under Virtual PC / Virtual Server

Carlos — Thu, 11 Aug 2005 17:48:47 GMT

Travis, I've done all this and got the same error. So I start over again:

- select disk 0
- create partition
- format
- active

And than I got no error.. I have the 9GB NTFS partition active and working but still doesn't work ..
Click "Install Now" and after few seconds return the same page "Install Now" click again, again and again and nothing happend :(

Anyone could help?

I'm use Virtual Server 2005

re: Running Windows Vista Beta 1 under Virtual PC / Virtual Server

Mark Coffman — Wed, 10 Aug 2005 23:12:43 GMT

A friend told me that it appeared to hang on the screen that said "DO NOT RESTART YOUR COMPUTER AT THIS TIME" for *hours* but finally installed. Be patient!