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Strange mouse/keyb behaviour when upgrading XP

  1. #1


    Bo Berglund Guest

    Strange mouse/keyb behaviour when upgrading XP

    I have a guest which I am using to check the behaviour when performing
    a stepwise upgrade. I intended to go this path:
    1- XP-Home
    2- XP-Home + SP2
    3- Upgrade to XP-Pro
    4- XP-Pro SP3

    I am now at step 3 where I have used an MSDN DVD with XP-Pro SP2 and
    install as a repair on top of the XP-Home installation.
    All has been running well until I reach the step where setup is
    preparing settings for the continued installation and shows the
    Localized settings dialogue.
    At this time I wanted to click Next, but the mouse does not work
    inside the guest!
    Then I tried the keyboard as a second way out, but that did not work
    either.
    I reset the virtual machine and it restarted the same process again
    but got stuck at the same place. It is like there is a glass sheet on
    top of the guest so I cannot reach it with my mouse.

    What can I do to handle this behaviour?

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    Bo Berglund (Sweden)

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  2. #2


    David B. Guest

    Re: Strange mouse/keyb behaviour when upgrading XP

    I wasn't aware XP was available on DVD? Rather an odd path to follow, my
    choice would have been;

    1. XP Pro Upgrade (inserting XP Home CD when asked for previous OS
    qualification)
    2. XP SP3

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    "Bo Berglund" <boberglund@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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    >I have a guest which I am using to check the behaviour when performing
    > a stepwise upgrade. I intended to go this path:
    > 1- XP-Home
    > 2- XP-Home + SP2
    > 3- Upgrade to XP-Pro
    > 4- XP-Pro SP3
    >
    > I am now at step 3 where I have used an MSDN DVD with XP-Pro SP2 and
    > install as a repair on top of the XP-Home installation.
    > All has been running well until I reach the step where setup is
    > preparing settings for the continued installation and shows the
    > Localized settings dialogue.
    > At this time I wanted to click Next, but the mouse does not work
    > inside the guest!
    > Then I tried the keyboard as a second way out, but that did not work
    > either.
    > I reset the virtual machine and it restarted the same process again
    > but got stuck at the same place. It is like there is a glass sheet on
    > top of the guest so I cannot reach it with my mouse.
    >
    > What can I do to handle this behaviour?
    >
    > --
    >
    > Bo Berglund (Sweden)

      My System SpecsSystem Spec

  3. #3


    Bo Berglund Guest

    Re: Strange mouse/keyb behaviour when upgrading XP

    On Tue, 27 Jan 2009 16:57:21 -0500, "David B." <mail@xxxxxx>
    wrote:

    >I wasn't aware XP was available on DVD? Rather an odd path to follow, my
    >choice would have been;
    >
    >1. XP Pro Upgrade (inserting XP Home CD when asked for previous OS
    >qualification)
    >2. XP SP3
    The reason for this is to investigate the various connectivity
    possibilities from XP-Home to XP-Pro SP3.
    I have a physical XP-Pro machine that I upgraded to SP3 last week, but
    as a consequence my wife lost access to the printer I have. She is
    running XP-Home SP1.

    So I figured I would check the various tricks on a virtual machine
    before embarking on a physical upgrade on her PC.
    So far I have verified that XP-Home SP2 still has the connectivity
    problem against an XP-Pro SP3 machine.
    That is why I did the boot from the MSDN DVD with the XP-Pro SP2
    install files (it is an MSDN disk with several different OS installs
    on). Then it locked up as described...

    But since I had enabled undo disks on the virtual machine I have now
    discarded the SP2 level on the guest and the half upgrade to Pro and
    instead started the upgrade directly from XP-Home. This time I
    navigated to the Setup.exe on the CD (ISO file captured to guest) from
    inside XP-Home. I got a selection to do an upgrade to Pro in the
    sequence so I guess I am good now.
    The process is still running when I write this.

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    Bo Berglund (Sweden)

      My System SpecsSystem Spec

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