Installing the Windows 7 Beta with Virtual PC 2007 SP1

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infoblog » Installing the Windows 7 Beta with Virtual PC 2007 SP1 — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 06:09:33 GMT

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3DCrash — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 07:06:38 GMT

I just installed Windows 7 32 bit VM and the mouse is dog slow. Every thing else seems snappy though. Other virtual machine I have run fine.

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3DCrash — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 07:14:44 GMT

Oops.....Forgot to install the Virtual Machine Additions. Made a world of a difference.

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James Brown — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 14:40:18 GMT

Excellent tutorial- thanks for the help. Can I ask what it is you use to make the "torn out page" screenshots?

James

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mellomutt — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 16:31:22 GMT

Between steps 13 and 14, if you follow your steps exactly, it fails on XP. You have to close the "reboot" window after selecting the ISO. THEN it will ask if you want to SAVE STATE or TURN OFF. Select TURN OFF, because SAVE STATE will not work. THEN select the OS in the list and hit ENTER or click START.

Thought this might help someone.

Also, it says in your post that it takes a few seconds, but it took at least a minute for the "reboot" text to appear after it shows "client mac addr", a guid, and a rotating cursor bit. This was the case for me. For some people, it takes several minutes. Just have to be patient.

Good luck!

Installera Windows 7 med Virtual PC 2007 SP1

Robert Folkesson — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 17:04:07 GMT

Om du inte har någon ledig maskin över och inte vill köra Dual-boot på en befintlig maskin, men ändå

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Jeff — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 20:29:32 GMT

Already planning on trying this first, thanks for confirming it's workable!

Jeff.

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briankel — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 21:27:26 GMT

Thanks, James - the program I used is SnagIt from TechSmith, the same company that makes Camtasia. It's a great program!

Brian

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Richard Bewley — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 21:27:59 GMT

Really great tutorial. installation a breeze. My only issue is that whatever I do, I am unable to get the internet connection to work. it is definitely setup having followed 'enabling networking' settings. am a bit stumped.

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Richard Bewley — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 21:38:23 GMT

figured it out. had Mac address filtering enabled on my router for physical network cards. had to add the MAC address of rvirtualised adapter and since worked fine. Would never had thought... R

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briankel — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 22:01:58 GMT

Thanks, mellomut - I have updated step 12 per your suggestion.

Regarding step 14, are you sure that you applied focus to the virtual machine and pressed enter? That should trigger a reboot (I just tried again on a couple of my machines). But you're right that you can also force a reboot by doing as you said.

Brian

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Jason — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 02:25:48 GMT

Windows 7 installed fine but when I try to install or update Virtual Machine Additions...nothing happens. I click it and it brings up another box that says it is sending something to my cd rom drive...then nothing happens.

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james — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 03:01:35 GMT

Is there any way to change the video driver in the VM instead of using the S3 video driver? I have an nVidia 8600GTS and going to NVidia's website they say that they already have a driver for Windows7 available on Windows Update. The only update that I could find on Windows Update was for Defender. I don't think the S3 driver shows the new interface at it's full potential. .......

james

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Ali Rokni — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 04:33:25 GMT

Excellent article and great tutorial. Thank you so much Brian.

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briankel — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 08:19:20 GMT

James -

A Virtual PC image doesn't have direct access to your hardware, hence it is unable to take advantage of your video card's full potential. If you want to see Windows 7 in all of its glory you'll need to install on the metal (without virtualization).

Brian

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briankel — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 08:21:00 GMT

Hi Jason -

When you click to install Virtual Machine Additions it mounts a CD image and makes that available to Windows 7. By default it should then give you an autolauncher and the option to run setup.exe. If that doesn't happen, though, you can browse to the CD drive and run setup.exe manually to install the Virtual Machine Additions.

Hope that helps -

Brian

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Chris — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 17:34:05 GMT

Is the expanding files suppose to take for ever on 0% because its been about 10min now... Dont know if Im just being impatient..

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briankel — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 18:52:34 GMT

Chris -

Are you talking about the files which expand during the beginning of the Windows 7 setup stage? Make sure you don't have any of the VPC settings open. Virtual PC pauses execution of your VPC while you have the settings dialogs open. For me, this step took about 10 minutes if I recall correctly but the percentage kept ticking up and it didn't hang on 0%.

Brian

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trace — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 20:22:58 GMT

How would u succesfully uninstall windows 7 from virtual pc?

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Andi — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 20:34:37 GMT

Hello,

I have Windows 7 under Virtual PC, network adapter, I have asked to 1. Now my problem, I'm not into the Internet. With my PC, I can ping Windows 7, but not vice versa. I use a router as Fritzbox. where I have gone wrong.

Thank you for the help

Andi

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briankel — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 20:40:44 GMT

Trace -

That's the beauty of Virtual PC. :-) Since the virtual machine is self-contained as one big file (the .VHD file you created in step 9) all you need to do is delete that file and the virtual machine will be gone.

Brian

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briankel — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 20:46:24 GMT

Andi -

Hmm, that could be a tricky one for me to troubleshoot via blog comments since there are a lot of things which could be impacting your networking. But here are some ideas:

- See Richard Bewley's earlier comment about needing to input the MAC address of his virtual machine on his router. I think Richard has a MAC address filtering policy enabled which means that any machine (virtual or otherwise) which wants to communicate will need to be authorized. Now I don't think this would have prevented your ping from working, but it's one idea to try.

- Try pinging by IP address instead of machine name.

- If you are in a location that uses a proxy server, be sure to install the proxy client on your virtual machine. Again this shouldn't have impacted a local ping, but it's worth trying.

- It's possible that your host machine has ping responses turned off. Can you ping your host machine from another machine on your local network? If not, then ping might be an invalid test of your connectivity.

I hope that helps. Networking can be a bit tricky with virtual machines. I'm not as much of an expert in that area as I'd like to be.

Brian

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Stephen — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 21:16:43 GMT

When I installed the Virtual Machine Additions, Windows blue screened upon rebooting. I had to do a roll back to before I installed the Additions. Anything I'm missing there? Here is the issue:

http://myitforum.com/cs2/blogs/scassells/archive/2009/01/09/windows-7-does-boot-recovery-caused-by-vpc-2007-virtual-machine-additions.aspx

Installing Windows 7 Beta 1 on a VPC

Are you thinking what I'm thinking? — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 21:22:40 GMT

You may or may not have heard that Windows 7 Beta 1 was made available to the general public on Friday,

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briankel — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 21:27:40 GMT

Stephen -

Congratulations! You're the first person I've talked to who has managed to blue screen Windows 7. ;-)

I'm willing to bet that the problem is caused by not running Virtual PC 2007 SP1. I've seen similar results on other (non-Windows 7) virtual images before. See step 1 of my blog post to make sure you're running SP1.

Let me know how it goes.

Brian

Nyheter för utvecklare i Windows 7 och Windows Server 2008 R2

Robert Folkesson — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 22:02:18 GMT

Windows 7 och Windows Server 2008 R2 innebär inte bara en hel del nyheter för användare, t.ex. smidigare

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Stephen — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 22:11:53 GMT

Yep, upgrading to SP1 did the trick. The Virtual Machine Additions installed without a problem. I guess I thought I already had SP1. Thanks!

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briankel — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 22:44:16 GMT

Great, I'm glad that worked for you Stephen! Thanks for following up to let me know.

Brian

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Matt D — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 00:37:35 GMT

After i select Custom at the install screen, where would i install it to? What folder? Also do i need to partition anything?

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briankel — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 01:44:34 GMT

Matt D -

You don't need to create any special partitions, just select the one that's already there and click 'Next' (or whatever the equivelent to 'Next' is, it might say 'Finish' or 'Install' or something like that, I can't remember).

Brian

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Alessandro Teglia — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 13:32:38 GMT

Pingpack from: http://blogs.technet.com/alead_msft/archive/2009/01/13/how-to-run-windows-7-on-a-virtual-machine.aspx

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Mark (Leeds in GB) — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 17:04:03 GMT

Thanks for the step by step approach to installing Win7 on Virtual PC.

I would have been lost without it.

Best regards,

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Abass — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 19:48:20 GMT

Hi thanks for that. It was great and well-explained. However, I can't go beyond step 14. Everything works fine but then it says 'the virtual machine could not be started because there is not enough memory on the host'. I looked for solutions but I couldn't find any that is helpful. I had nero and uninstalled it and also roxio but still the problem persists. Also, when I go to settings>memory on the virtual machine menu, I can NOT allocate more than 502 MB of RAM. My RAM is 1024MB (1GB) but it seems the virtual pc requires at least 512 MB but I can not allocate more than 502 although I have more than double of that (1024MB). Is there a way in which I can allocate 512 MB of RAM to the virtual PC? Any help is appreciated. Thanks in advance!

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briankel — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 20:09:48 GMT

Abass -

Allocating 50% of your physical RAM to your virtual machine is just a rule of thumb and isn't guaranteed to be the best setting for your machine. If 512MB doesn't work, try turning it down further - maybe 400MB or 450MB will do the trick. You'll just have to experiment (although keep in mind that the less RAM you have to allocate, the slower your virtual machine will run - it might be time to buy some more physical RAM).

Brian

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Sam — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 20:31:04 GMT

Brian, I'm having the same problem as Chris (the "Expanding files" portion of the setup sitting at 0%). I've confirmed that all Virtual PC settings or other dialog boxes are closed. There does appear to be some activity (the elipses beside the percentage keep moving, but the percentage never goes up).

It's been running like this for at least 45 minutes now, after flying through the "Copying files" step very quickly.

Any suggestions? I'm running Virtual PC 2007 SP1 on a Windows XP Pro SP3 workstation. I have just over 1GB of memory allotted to the Windows 7 virtual machine out of a total of 3GB available.

The only other difference from your tutorial is that I'm running the install from a physical DVD instead of an .iso file. That shouldn't make a difference, should it?

Thanks for any help you can provide.

-Sam

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briankel — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 20:35:11 GMT

Hi Sam-

Interesting. No I wouldn't expect that running from the DVD as opposed to the ISO would make a difference, but I would try the following:

1) Reboot the virtual machine and see if you can get past this. (I would consider it frozen at this point, it definitely shouldn't take 45 mins)

2) Try running from the ISO as I did in my steps above instead of from a DVD.

Hope that helps!

Brian

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Abass — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 23:18:38 GMT

Brian, thank you, that was helpful. I tried 402 MB and t accepted. I now installed and everything is working fine. I thought if it doesn't accept 502 MB, it won't accept 402 but seems tat is now how wit works, It is a bit like trial by error where you will choose different value and see which one works. But thanks!

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Filip — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 23:47:15 GMT

Hi!

I can't connect to the internet. It says that the network adapter does not have a valid IP configuration. What can I do?

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briankel — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 00:00:50 GMT

Filip -

Please see my earlier response to Andi for some ideas. There are a myriad of things which can be causing networking issues so I'm afraid I probably won't be able to help you troubleshoot that one for you.

Brian

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Abass — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 00:29:23 GMT

Brian, sorry for asking too many questions but I am back again. You remember earlier that after I adjusted the virtual ram to 402 everything worked? After I restarted my PC, now I am back to that same old story of 'not enough memory on the host'. But why did it accept and install in the first place and is now saying no memory? Everything was working fine and the pc was OK but now it is refusing again. I just want to ask you, the virtual PC doesn't allow me to allocate more than 502 MB, is there a way in which I can change? I want to allocate 512 so that it won't bother me. Is there a way in which I can do this? Bear in mind that at the moment it doesn't allow me allocating more than 502 MB of RAM and I don't know why.

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Abass — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 00:36:14 GMT

Hi Brian, it worked again with 370 MB. Now this is funny. Does it mean that every time I have to try it with different amount of RAM to see if it will work?

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briankel — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 00:41:18 GMT

Abass -

I think you're interpreting the error message incorrectly. When it says you don't have enough memory available on the host, it means that you have allocated too much memory to your virtual machine. So if you try going higher (e.g. to 502MB) it won't work if your host only has (for example) 350MB free. The actual amount of memory you can allocate depends on how much memory your host computer has free. If you have other programs running, it will leave less memory to run a virtual machine. You might also have viruses, or programs with bugs that "leak" memory over time and don't re-allocate it. There are any number of potential causes for this problem. But I would really, really, suggest buying more memory if you plan to run a virtual machine for long. You essentially have to have enough memory to satisfy 2 computers running on the same machine, so it cuts your effective RAM in half.

Brian

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LewisGT NI — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 01:39:24 GMT

Suprised how easy this was. It's been a while since I have done anything technical.

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Shawn Morrissey — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 02:17:09 GMT

Hi Brian,

Great instructions! Running VPC under XP SP3 with 2GB of memory; 1 GB allocated to the image. Everything seems to be working fine.

Thanks!

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Pascal — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 08:50:35 GMT

Great tutorial!!

anybody experiencing a BSOD after installing Install or Update Virtual Machine Additions?

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briankel — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 09:34:57 GMT

Pascal -

Yes this happens if you don't have Virtual PC 2007 SP1 installed. Please see step #1.

Brian

VIIrtualization: Windows 7 Beta on Hyper-V and Virtual PC 2007 SP1

Virtual Varia — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 23:28:21 GMT

Well, it looks like I was too slow in getting my posts written, because a bunch of people have beaten

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Lee — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 23:58:49 GMT

Please help me... On my vista machine I have 2 partitions, 1 for vista and one for the back up files incase vista crashes... Does it matter what hdd I put my vhd on? If not shpuld i use the backup one because it has more hdd space... thanks in advance

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John — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 00:52:07 GMT

Does take quite a bit of time to install...it's over 50 minutes now and still at the Completing Installation window...my computer is well above minimum to install...oh well..will see after it installs.

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briankel — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 01:12:02 GMT

Lee,

Either should work. My preference would be the partition with more available drive space. Also if that's a different physical disk than your primary (system) partition then that's going to give you a speed boost since your computer will be able to spread the I/O requests across two physical drives.

Brian

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briankel — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 01:14:02 GMT

John -

Make sure you don't have any Virtual PC settings dialogs open. This can effectively "pause" the operation of your virtual machine. I'm not sure how long it took me to install since I was writing my blog post simultaneously, but depending on the speed of your CPU, hard disk, and available RAM it's not out of the realm of possibility that it could take upwards of an hour to complete everything on slower hardware. If I had to estimate, I probably could have installed everything in 30 mins, but that's on my brand new desktop.

Brian

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Mike — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 06:03:53 GMT

Thanks for the Step by Step. Unfortunately I get an error each time I try to install on the virtual PC. First the Copying Files step goes by very fast. Expanding files seems to be alright but then when that is nearly complete I get the error message:

Windows cannot install required files. The file may be corrupt or missing. Make sure all files required for installation are available, and restart the installation. Error code: 0x80070570

Can anyone tell me what I might be doing wrong?

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jonathan anglesea — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 14:01:59 GMT

I just finished installing it using an XP box with 2Gb RAM and a Core 2 Dual CPU - it all works. I did have some problems though and to help others will outline them here.

1) Using a burned DVD to load W7 into Virtual PC 2007 SP1 did not work - the expanding files just stayed at 0%. I had to use an iso file as the W7 Beat source.

2) Mapping an iso file across the network was not a good idea - got the same result as with a burned DVD. Had to copy the iso to a local hard drive for it to work. But it worked OK from both SATA and USB drives.

3) Choosing "other" rather than "Vista" worked OK so long as I created a virtual PC with 1Gb of RAM and 10Gb hard drive. But I then had to install Virtual PC additions by logging onto the W7 virtual PC and running VPD Additions from the VPC CD rather than have it run automatically.

4) Having chosen "other" as the VPC type I got a non-functioning sound card. I updated the sound driver by pointing the upate driver dialog to C:\Program Files\Virtual Machine Additions after which the sound driver loaded fine. So using "Vista" instead of "other" would have saved some time but is not obligatory. I did not have to create a new virtual PC of type "Vista" and do the .vmc file delete/point to original .vhd trick to get it all working.

And I have to say I am well impressed both by Virtual PC 2007 SP1 and W7 Beta. It all works and is fast and stable.

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andibo — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 16:18:34 GMT

I got the blue screen twice even with VPC SP1 installed after reboot when installing the Virtual Machine Additions.

Host: WinXP Pro SP2 x86 MUI.

Workaround was not to restart when prompted by installation but restarting after that dialog manually.

What doesn't work is drag 'n drop from host to guest - vice versa is fine.

andibo

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JayCustom — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 21:37:39 GMT

NICE! Thanks for the step-by-step Brian. This is the first time I did anything this technical..but I followed your steps and it is flawless. I am actually typing this from IE in Windows 7! Anyway....make sure to select "VISTA" as Operating system and "UPDATE ADDITIONS" for VPC. Its not even worth running w/o the additions. I've even got my native resolution of 1600x1024..so I am in true fullscreen mode. If only "Aero" was enabled,I wouldn't go back to my host XP hehe! Oh,and if possible,give your VPC at least 1,024 MB of RAM. I have 3GB total on my host PC,so I gave VPC 1,604MB..at its FAST! I will check in to try to help others that post here..because I think people should try this out..its pretty interesting and pretty cool. Peace!

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Lee — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 21:38:25 GMT

Hi, Its Lee again... I just realised that if you are using Vista Home Premium Virtual Pc wont work... To get round this you must set the compatibility settings on the exe file to Windows Xp (service pack 2) and set it to run as administrator. This also avoids any roll back issues...

Also Thanks Brian for your info...

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Scott — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 23:29:22 GMT

Hello, I'm having the same issue as Mike a few posts above. I get past Copying Files and most of the way through Expanding files and then I get the following error:

Windows cannot install required files. The file may be corrupt or missing. Make sure all files required for installation are available, and restart the installation. Error code: 0x80070570

I tried re-downloading the ISO as well as installing it on a different physical machine. Both machines were running VPC 2007 SP1. Same error on both.

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briankel — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 23:54:51 GMT

Mike, Scott -

There are any number of things which could be resulting in a corrupt file, but that's exactly what you have if you're getting those errors. Here are some things to try:

- Make sure you're downloading the file to a partition that uses an NTFS file system. Other file systems may not support a 2GB+ file.

- Make sure your anti-virus software is up to date. It's possible that something is corrupting the file after download.

- If the download manager that the Windows 7 page uses isn't working for you, try downloading from the direct link. I would also suggest using a download manager, such as www.freedownloadmanager.org, for grabbing this file. Here is the direct download URL: http://download.microsoft.com/download/6/3/3/633118BD-6C3D-45A4-B985-F0FDFFE1B021/EN/7000.0.081212-1400_client_en-us_Ultimate-GB1CULFRE_EN_DVD.iso

Brian

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Pinak — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 06:44:37 GMT

well i get all the way into the "rebooting" part , so i let it do it and it just shuts it down and when I boot it up , it just shows me the setup screen !

I am using Windows XP and Virtual PC !!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Kokos — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 14:57:48 GMT

Hi ! I have installed Win 7 on VBox but I cannot see resolution 1280 x 800 for my laptop 15,4''. What can I do ?

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utvjja — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 19:21:17 GMT

The option seems to be Dual boot. Are there any good instructions to maintain this?

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briankel — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 19:28:53 GMT

utvjja -

I don't understand your question.

Brian

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briankel — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 19:29:59 GMT

Kokos -

As you can see my instructions are for installing Windows 7 with Virtual PC 2007 SP1. I don't endorse VBox, I have heard reports of several people having problems with it.

Brian

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briankel — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 19:30:51 GMT

Pinak -

My guess is that when it reboots you're pressing a key on start up when it asks you if you want to boot off of CD. You should not be booting off of CD after you've already finished the first phase of setup.

Brian

Installing Windows 7 beta on Virtual PC 2007

StrivingLife — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 01:08:34 GMT

Installing Windows 7 beta on Virtual PC 2007

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Ken — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 08:40:50 GMT

Ahhh... For those having a problem with hanging expanding at 0%, mounting the ISO image instead of using an actual DVD does make a difference.

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Simon — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 20:27:54 GMT

Hi,

Im trying to run it with virtual pc 2007 build 6.0.192.0, on winxp sp3 1gb ram, it loads fine gets past copying files, then i select install windows 7, i shows "starting setup" it seems to ptter away there doing nothing for maybe 15 minutes then I get the error, "windows could not collect information for [os image] since the specified image file [install.wim] does not exist" and give me the option to click ok, i do this and it starts again after another 15 minutes I get the same error again

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briankel — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 20:43:39 GMT

Simon -

I'm betting that this means your ISO is corrupt. Please see my response to Mike & Scott above.

Brian

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Paul van Druten — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 20:44:45 GMT

Yep, I just mounted the ISO and it works fine to install.

Thanx James for the manual...

Paul

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luke — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 15:08:13 GMT

I seem to get this error message after Expanding files.. 19% 'Windows cannot install required files. The file may be corrupt or missing. Make sure all files required for installation are available, and restart the installation. Error code: 0x80070570'

After a minute copying files is 100% and Expanding files takes ages on 0% then slowly goes up and crashes at this point. I installed Virtual PC 2007 SP1 before installing. Please could you help me?

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briankel — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 23:57:38 GMT

Luke -

Seems like another problem with a corrupt download. Please see my response to Mike & Scott above.

Brian

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Dave — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 17:43:32 GMT

This article solved my networking issues (albeit with a vista IE7 image) - advises to change TCP/IP DNS server address. give it a go anyone still experiencing issues.

http://www.tipandtrick.net/2008/fix-virtual-pc-2007-shared-networking-nat-internet-not-working-in-windows-server-2003-2008-and-vista-guest-os/

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John — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 06:55:48 GMT

Thanks for the excellent write-up. It actually worked flawlessly!

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Senaj — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 08:32:52 GMT

After installing the Virtual PC Additions my WIndows 7 fails to start EVERY time..

it tries some self repair without any help.

Is it because my VIrtual PC is german ?

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briankel — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 08:38:20 GMT

Senaj -

Please see step #1 of my article. You MUST be running Service Pack 1 of Virtual PC 2007. Otherwise this will fail every time as you described.

Brian

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Gary K — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 09:59:24 GMT

I often run XP in Virtual PC 2007 for software testing/compatibility purposes and knew right away that I'd put Windows 7 in Virtual PC. The problem is that Windows 7 defaults to Aero which brings the machine to a crawl, whereas Windows Vista knows the graphics aren't up to par and turns off Aero. Anyone know if there's any way to disable the Aero graphics in Windows 7 while running in Virtual PC?

I'd really like to experiment more with the new Windows to see how its networking intergrates into a multi O/S environment but it's not running well enough to do much with it.

FYI, I'm running a 3.4GHZ HT Pentium 4 with 4GB of ram - I give the Virtual machine 1.5 GB of ram so the only limitation is the graphics in the virtual machine.

re: Installing the Windows 7 Beta with Virtual PC 2007 SP1

Rick — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 04:02:21 GMT

Excellent step by step instructions - Use VPC all the time and makes a huge difference to testing and evaluation of new software. Excellent platform to test Windows 7 on. Following the steps provided a faultless install, Machine Additions installed without a problem as well.

To other users it is essential that you take note of the requirement of the version of VPC and to 'capture the ISO image' and not use a physical DVD drive.

Pleased to say that all our in-house developed software works without a hitch on Windows 7, and that is good news for us - (here's hoping there are no fundamental changes are made to the code after the release of the Beta.)

FYI - Machine is running Vista Business (32 bit), Quad Core 2.6GHz, 4MB RAM and 7 runs well with 1280MB RAM allocated to it , although as andibo said drag and drop from host to guest does not work and causes an error with VPC

Nice one -

re: Installing the Windows 7 Beta with Virtual PC 2007 SP1

Mubin — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 15:40:31 GMT

Their are people who are always ready to help you out of trouble and share their knwoladge. Thanks dear

re: Installing the Windows 7 Beta with Virtual PC 2007 SP1

Dotnet Adventurer — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 07:22:23 GMT

Thanks a lot! Really clear and acurate. There is no better feeling then knowing what need to be done!!!

re: Installing the Windows 7 Beta with Virtual PC 2007 SP1

Lukas — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 22:51:33 GMT

Awesome tutorial, thank you very much Brian!

re: Installing the Windows 7 Beta with Virtual PC 2007 SP1

Chris Kraft — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 09:17:07 GMT

Thanks for the great tutorial!

re: Installing the Windows 7 Beta with Virtual PC 2007 SP1

SamC1931 — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 23:20:42 GMT

Thanks for the detailed installation steps.

My Vista w/SP1 hangs on the "Please read the license terms" page. I can not check the "box I accept the license terms". I can tab through the document to the end and tab on to the "I accept the license terms" phrase. The Next box does not react. The mouse seems OK using the right-Alt key.

Help! Thank you ...Sam

re: Installing the Windows 7 Beta with Virtual PC 2007 SP1

SamC1931 — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 01:14:44 GMT

Correction to the above:

My Win7beta install on Vitrual PC 2007 hangs on the "Please read the license terms" page. I can not check the "box I accept the license terms". I can scroll through the document to the end and tab on to the "I accept the license terms" phrase. The “Next” box does not react. The mouse seems OK using the right-Alt key.

Help! Thank you ...Sam

re: Installing the Windows 7 Beta with Virtual PC 2007 SP1

mark — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 22:09:10 GMT

virtual machine additions/BSOD (again)

I'm using

Virtual Server version 1.1.465.356 EE R2

BSOD every time I install vma's on win7

I would warrant this version is not up to the VPC2007sp1 standard but I don't know the relationship between these two product versions

any ideas?

re: Installing the Windows 7 Beta with Virtual PC 2007 SP1

briankel — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 22:23:34 GMT

SamC1931 - Sorry I haven't seen that before and don't have any ideas for what might be causing it. Maybe try it on a different computer? Seems strange!

re: Installing the Windows 7 Beta with Virtual PC 2007 SP1

briankel — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 22:24:42 GMT

Mark -

Sorry I haven't tried Virtual Server so I don't have any experience with what service packs might be required to get this to work. Maybe just search to make sure you're running the latest and greatest service packs, both on Windows Server 2008 and on Virtual Server specifically.

re: Installing the Windows 7 Beta with Virtual PC 2007 SP1

Kamesh — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 22:32:54 GMT

Thanks for step by step instructions for installation, Brain

Windows 7 RC Release

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This week on C9: Windows 7 RC, Glimmer for jQuery, and ZOMG Ponies

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