Takes days (almost a week) to install XP VPC on Vista Host

[Borg Vomit]

Ok,
Host:2 gig ram total on Vista Ult, I gave 1gig ram to the VPC.
The VPC has a 20 gig vHD.
The XP cd is retail, the Vista Ult cd is retail.

I saw that the partition was taking hours, so I rebooted the VPC and
host. I started over, same thing, very slow. I checked all the
settings and the only thing I could find was a suggestion to uncheck
the cd on the secondary controller (so I unchecked it).

I just let it run and now I'm on day 4 -- about 2 days was just
copying files and it's still not done installing.

Oh, and I checked the ip addresses of the host and vpc controllers to
make sure they were different but on the same subnet etc.

I can't think of anything else to try...any ideas?

I don't know if it matters, but it's an Intel Mobo. I keep telling
my buds not to buy intel boards, but they buy them, realize it doesn't
do what they want it to do and give them to me. I try to use them as
dev pc's but they never seem to run 100%. Is it me or does anyone
else have probs with Intel Mobo's?

 

[Robert Comer]

First cut the allocation down to 512M for the XP VM, yo don't need any
more than that to install -- you can change it later if you need to,
then use something to copy the XP installer DVD to an ISO file and
then attach the ISO to the VM and install from that.

 

[Colin Barnhorst]

Heck, I only use 256mb for an XP vm for installing the OS and adjust later
(maybe). You're a generous man, Robert. Not that I don't have oodles of
ram on the host.