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| | VM Additions broke Guest OS Ran Setup.exe in the CD, says it completed normally and required a restart, I hit restart, it went to "Windows is shutting down...and nothing...would not close down. I closed down via the console. Started it again and is sitting on starting up (ie XP logo and status bar underneath moving horizontally). Never went to logon. I started in SAFE mode, unchecked VMUSRVC.EXE in Msconfig/startup..still would not start properly. I did restore to VMA install point, restarted, no good. -- Regards Tom |
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| | Re: VM Additions broke Guest OS "ThomasAJ" <ThomasAJ@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:2602B582-2DBA-472F-8C28-4C1A5B99EFD6@xxxxxx Quote: > Ran Setup.exe in the CD, says it completed normally and required a > restart, I hit restart, it went to "Windows is shutting down...and > nothing...would not close down. I closed down via the console. Started it > again and is sitting on starting up (ie XP logo and status bar underneath > moving horizontally). > > Never went to logon. > > I started in SAFE mode, unchecked VMUSRVC.EXE in Msconfig/startup..still > would not start properly. > > I did restore to VMA install point, restarted, no good. > -- > Regards > Tom employ you as a tester! |
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| | Re: VM Additions broke Guest OS Perhaps they should have. I have spent about 2 weeks (not full time of course) trying to get to the stage where I am confident of running my work PC on my laptop in the event of a disaster (new Lenovo, 64 bit Visa business, VPC2007) or at least running some essential stuff and am not there yet by a long way. From what I have seen VPC2007 should stay off off broadway, way down in some basement with an audience of 2. I have many years IT experience (no not admin stuff which would help of course) in software development, management etc and I am very very dissapointed with this product - I understand now why it is free and I feared this might be the case when I started this excercise. BTW why this concept of VM Additions - from what I can see that it adds it should just come standard with VPC. After all it knows what guest OS one is trying to install cause it asks. -- Regards Tom "Bill Grant" wrote: Quote: > > > "ThomasAJ" <ThomasAJ@xxxxxx> wrote in message > news:2602B582-2DBA-472F-8C28-4C1A5B99EFD6@xxxxxx Quote: > > Ran Setup.exe in the CD, says it completed normally and required a > > restart, I hit restart, it went to "Windows is shutting down...and > > nothing...would not close down. I closed down via the console. Started it > > again and is sitting on starting up (ie XP logo and status bar underneath > > moving horizontally). > > > > Never went to logon. > > > > I started in SAFE mode, unchecked VMUSRVC.EXE in Msconfig/startup..still > > would not start properly. > > > > I did restore to VMA install point, restarted, no good. > > -- > > Regards > > Tom > You certainly have a knack. I personally think that Microsoft should > employ you as a tester! > > |
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| | Re: VM Additions broke Guest OS >BTW why this concept of VM Additions - from what I can see that it adds it Quote: >should just come standard with VPC. After all it knows what guest OS one is >trying to install cause it asks. has full control of the computer, not VPC, remember it's just an emulator of a real PC and a real PC can't inject software by itself either. One could build an install disk for any OS with the proper install of the Additions, but who would do that when VM usage is so much less... -- Bob Comer On Tue, 30 Dec 2008 18:11:00 -0800, ThomasAJ <ThomasAJ@xxxxxx> wrote: Quote: >Perhaps they should have. I have spent about 2 weeks (not full time of >course) trying to get to the stage where I am confident of running my work PC >on my laptop in the event of a disaster (new Lenovo, 64 bit Visa business, >VPC2007) or at least running some essential stuff and am not there yet by a >long way. > >From what I have seen VPC2007 should stay off off broadway, way down in some >basement with an audience of 2. > >I have many years IT experience (no not admin stuff which would help of >course) in software development, management etc and I am very very >dissapointed with this product - I understand now why it is free and I feared >this might be the case when I started this excercise. > >BTW why this concept of VM Additions - from what I can see that it adds it >should just come standard with VPC. After all it knows what guest OS one is >trying to install cause it asks. |
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| | Re: VM Additions broke Guest OS "ThomasAJ" <ThomasAJ@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:3602ADD6-7FDF-4D98-B44E-B481F9A3784D@xxxxxx Quote: > BTW why this concept of VM Additions - from what I can see that it adds it > should just come standard with VPC. After all it knows what guest OS one > is > trying to install because it asks. subsequent installation of an OS - they are simply there as recommended settings... E.g. you could tell VPC that you wanted to create a VM appropriate for Win2k3, but then actually install Win98 - VPC wouldn't care because it wouldn't know... The installation of the Additions has to be a manual process because: a) the OS running in a VM doesn't actually know it's running in a VM, so it doesn't know that it needs the Additions b) VPC doesn't know what OS is running on the VM - the first stage of the Additions setup identifies that... This is the same for any software virtualisation technology - cf VMWare's Tools or VirtualBox' Additions: http://www.google.co.uk/search?sourc...q=VMWare+Tools http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en...dditions&meta= -- Mark Rae ASP.NET MVP http://www.markrae.net |
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