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11-24-2008
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| | RE: Virtual PC 2007 will not boot from my CD drive Quote: > I'm using VPC2007, and try as I may it simply will not boot from my internal > DVD/CD drive. I've tried changing the setting that switches between primary > and secondary interface but this makes no different, it simply goes straight > to the PXE boot every time. I'm trying to boot a Windows Vista DVD, it's > created a VM fine in VMWare but VPC just doesn't want to know. In the VPC > window if I click on the CD menu the option for using the physical CD drive > is greyed out... Posted via http://www.VirtualServerFaq.com - Brought to you by Business Information Technology Shop - http://www.bitshop.com |
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11-24-2008
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| | Re: Virtual PC 2007 will not boot from my CD drive On Mon, 24 Nov 2008 19:37:06 GMT, "Chris"<kurly@xxxxxx> wrote: Quote: > Quote: >> I'm using VPC2007, and try as I may it simply will not boot from my internal >> DVD/CD drive. I've tried changing the setting that switches between primary >> and secondary interface but this makes no different, it simply goes straight >> to the PXE boot every time. I'm trying to boot a Windows Vista DVD, it's >> created a VM fine in VMWare but VPC just doesn't want to know. In the VPC >> window if I click on the CD menu the option for using the physical CD drive >> is greyed out... >I had the same problem. Virtual PC 2007 did not boot from the DVD, but it actually >did from CD. It has taken me hours to figure out that Virtual PC needs to be run >as Administrator to be able to access DVDs. (How ever, there is actually not need >to be Administrator to access a CD in the DVD drive) > -- Bo Berglund (Sweden) |
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11-28-2008
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| | Re: Virtual PC 2007 will not boot from my CD drive On Fri, 28 Nov 2008 09:59:47 GMT, "Chris"<christof@xxxxxx> wrote: Quote: > Quote: >> I'm using VPC2007, and try as I may it simply will not boot from my internal >> DVD/CD drive. I've tried changing the setting that switches between primary >> and secondary interface but this makes no different, it simply goes straight >> to the PXE boot every time. I'm trying to boot a Windows Vista DVD, it's >> created a VM fine in VMWare but VPC just doesn't want to know. In the VPC >> window if I click on the CD menu the option for using the physical CD drive >> is greyed out... >The host is Windows XP Professional > I had trouble booting a VM from the host physical CD drive when the disk was a DVD. Since it would anyway be very slow I gave up and I *never* use the physical drive anymore. I always make an ISO from any disk I need to access from the VM and then I capture the ISO file into the emulated optical drive in the VM. This always works and is quite fast too. -- Bo Berglund (Sweden) |
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01-18-2009
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| | RE: Virtual PC 2007 will not boot from my CD drive Thanks for the the tip. I was not able to access CDs or DVDs until I ran VPC 2007 as administrator. Now I'm good to go. I'm running Vist-32 business. -- Tom "Chris" wrote: Quote: > I had the same problem. Virtual PC 2007 did not boot from the DVD, but it actually did from CD. It has taken me hours to figure out that Virtual PC needs to be run as Administrator to be able to access DVDs. (How ever, there is actually not need to be Administrator to access a CD in the DVD drive) > > Posted via http://www.VirtualServerFaq.com - Brought to you by Business Information Technology Shop - http://www.bitshop.com > |
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