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Old 01-27-2009   #1 (permalink)
Bo Berglund


 
 

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)

My System SpecsSystem Spec
Old 01-27-2009   #2 (permalink)
David B.


 
 

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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Quote:

>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
Old 01-27-2009   #3 (permalink)
Bo Berglund


 
 

Re: Strange mouse/keyb behaviour when upgrading XP

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

>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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