dvd installation issue

Hello Brocky and a welcome to the VistaForums!

SInce just about everything on virtualzation is discussed on the sister forum Virtualization - Windows 7 Forums you will likely end there anyways on this.

I didn't spend much time with the 2007 version while the installation of the 7 32bit RC went on simply by having a virtual disk already created and starting up the newer Virtual PC for 7. With any disk in the dvd drive where a live cd or a Windows installation disk whatever was on the disk being a live distro or installation disk would simply load up and carry through until at a desktop or an installation was finished.

I have to suggest the other forum however since the guides for seeing that done on Windows 7 as well as the Virtualization section seen there as well.

zigzag3143 said:

Brocky

We could give you more help if you filled in your system specs. go to the lower left corner and click on sys specs. Also you have vista 32 on the system now? are you trying to install win 7 32 or 64? Do you have a raid controller attached?

Ken

the system used is Virtual PC 2007
im not sure what hardware it tell the software it has.
the host PC is
Vista 64 SP2
E6850
4gb ram
no raid other than Sata raid
but 7 is to be install into a virtual machine, not actual hardware
its been given 1024mb ram
and a 65gb HDD
in virtual box it was given 128mb video ram

http://i672.photobucket.com/albums/v...tmapImage4.jpg
screen shot of hardware for windows 7

Hopefully you are not trying to install the 64bit 7 on the Virtual PC 2007 version there. You'll run right into problems from the start since even the newer VPC Release Candidate now seen for 7 won't run a 64bit Windows there either.

The 32bit RC went on without fuss however with the host OS being 7 of course. As far as the usual hardwares on the VPC 2007? Forget it! That's the limited side of the virtual machine while the XP mode developed for 7 now has access to usb flash drives even some addons like printers.

A custom install of Windows however won't have those options available. That is also a problem when trying a custom install using the SUN Vlrtual Box and not having access to hardwares and drives while sound is shared on the VPC. The image below shows the XP mode running side by side with the Vista on VPC opposite there.

One problem seen for someone lately trying to install the VPC on 7 and running into problems came down to the recommendation to see another clean install of 7 due to installation problems despite repeat attempts. Evidently a Windows related problem was stalling it there. How long have you been the present Vista installation?

You can't run the Windows installer for a custom installation while starting that from an existing installation inside any VM except to upgrade what is directly or replace on the same virtual hard drive. In other words you can't run a VM inside another VM. That simply won't work from the start.

For seeing 7 installed on a virtual drive created for the purpose you have to start up the VPC there with the 7 dvd in the dvd drive where instead of seeing any other existing installation load you instead see the 7 installer start up. From there you are looking at the vhd you created when selecting the drive 7 will go onto.

Once I see Vista back on one of the drives here I will be able to go through the steps there with the 2007 VPC. You may be running into another problem like the need to change a setting in the bios or the model cpu you have won't support virtualization to begin with. Offhand that would be one reason for that error seen there.

I had the same problem when I was installing windows 7 on my laptop, and it turns out that it was actually a bad download or burn.

After I downloaded it again and burned it to a new DVD (at the slowest possible speed), it worked fine.

Here's a link to another thread on this forum about the same problem:

CD/DVD Driver missing on install