Vista - trouble installing server 2003

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.

Under settings do you have a hard drive identified? By clean install I
assume your planning on using your existing VM and just install the Win2K3
OS over it, reformatting the existing Virtual Disk.

"stu" <stu@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Sun, 13 Jul 2008 02:45:00 -0700, stu
<stu@xxxxxx> 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.

i am running it through vmware player sorry i forgot about that.

"Bo Berglund" wrote:

On Sun, 13 Jul 2008 09:01:21 -0700, stu
<stu@xxxxxx> 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/li...e-creation.php

"stu" <stu@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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Not much point posting in here, then...

What did they tell you in the VMWare newsgroups / forums...?


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From stu <stu@xxxxxx>, 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

"FACE" <AFaceInTheCrowd@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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Yeah - what would you care about that, eh...?


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ASP.NET MVP
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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" <stu@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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