Vista 5308 installation error under Virtual PC 2004

[Guest]

Anyone know how to fix the following?

Error when installing Vista 5308 (MS provided CD February CTP P/N X11.97939)
under Virtual PC 2004 :

Windows Setup: setup.exe - Application Error

The exception unknown software exception (0xe0000100) occurred
{The next line contains a number that looks like 0x77 40001 but is cut
off a few pixels down from the top of the font.}

Hardware: Toshiba A15-S129 running XP Home

This is really two separate problems:
(1) 5308 won't install under Virtual PC v2004
(2) that the second line of the error message Window is cut off.

THANX!

 

[Zack Whittaker \(R2 Mentor\)]

It's very difficult to get Vista to run in Virtual PC 2004. If you want to
run it in a virtual environment, your best bet is Virtual Server 2005 R2 as
that has some stability and support for "Longhorn" as it was )

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[Pierre Szwarc]

I remember reading somewhere (probably the release notes, or maybe the MSDN
d/l site) that it will *not* run under Virtual PC. OTOH, it *will* run under
VMWare.
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Paris, France
PGP key ID 0x75B5779B
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Multitasking: Reading in the bathroom !
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"MCSE" <[email protected]> a écrit dans le message de (e-mail address removed)...
| Anyone know how to fix the following?
|
| Error when installing Vista 5308 (MS provided CD February CTP P/N
X11.97939)
| under Virtual PC 2004 :
|
| Windows Setup: setup.exe - Application Error
[snip]

 

[Tom Porterfield]

Anyone know how to fix the following?

Error when installing Vista 5308 (MS provided CD February CTP P/N
X11.97939) under Virtual PC 2004 :

Windows Setup: setup.exe - Application Error

The exception unknown software exception (0xe0000100) occurred
{The next line contains a number that looks like 0x77 40001 but is cut
off a few pixels down from the top of the font.}

Hardware: Toshiba A15-S129 running XP Home

This is really two separate problems:
(1) 5308 won't install under Virtual PC v2004
(2) that the second line of the error message Window is cut off.

Make sure you have either burned the download to DVD and then capture that,
or use software to mount the iso to a virtual DVD drive, something along the
lines of daemon tools. VPC is unable to properly work with an iso image the
size of the Vista DVD iso.

 

[Guest]

My 5308 came on DVD from MS. Would you happen to know if this error is due
to the ISO being too large? I could try creating an ISO on disk and
capturing it, that may solve the problem.

 

[Guest]

That requires a bare metal install, doesn't it?

It's very difficult to get Vista to run in Virtual PC 2004. If you want to
run it in a virtual environment, your best bet is Virtual Server 2005 R2 as
that has some stability and support for "Longhorn" as it was )

--
Zack Whittaker
» ZackNET Enterprises: www.zacknet.co.uk
» MSBlog on ResDev: www.msblog.org
» Vista Knowledge Base: www.vistabase.co.uk
» This mailing is provided "as is" with no warranties, and confers no
rights. All opinions expressed are those of myself unless stated so, and not
of my employer, best friend, Ghandi, my mother or my cat. Glad we cleared
that up!


--- Original message follows ---

 

[Guest]

Will the free VMWare work? And that requires a bare-metal install, doesn't
it?

 

[Zack Whittaker \(R2 Mentor\)]

VMWare should work - but you will get very little to nothing of the
performance or features you'd expect in a standard non-virtualised
environment.

--
Zack Whittaker
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» This mailing is provided "as is" with no warranties, and confers no
rights. All opinions expressed are those of myself unless stated so, and not
of my employer, best friend, Ghandi, my mother or my cat. Glad we cleared
that up!


--- Original message follows ---

Will the free VMWare work? And that requires a bare-metal install,
doesn't
it?

I remember reading somewhere (probably the release notes, or maybe the
MSDN
d/l site) that it will *not* run under Virtual PC. OTOH, it *will* run
under
VMWare.
--
Pierre Szwarc
Paris, France
PGP key ID 0x75B5779B
------------------------------------------------
Multitasking: Reading in the bathroom !
------------------------------------------------

"MCSE" <[email protected]> a écrit dans le message de (e-mail address removed)...
| Anyone know how to fix the following?
|
| Error when installing Vista 5308 (MS provided CD February CTP P/N
X11.97939)
| under Virtual PC 2004 :
|
| Windows Setup: setup.exe - Application Error
[snip]

 

[Zack Whittaker \(R2 Mentor\)]

You got a disk with 5308 on it? They didn't release physical media though
(

--
Zack Whittaker
» ZackNET Enterprises: www.zacknet.co.uk
» MSBlog on ResDev: www.msblog.org
» Vista Knowledge Base: www.vistabase.co.uk
» This mailing is provided "as is" with no warranties, and confers no
rights. All opinions expressed are those of myself unless stated so, and not
of my employer, best friend, Ghandi, my mother or my cat. Glad we cleared
that up!


--- Original message follows ---

 

[Pierre Szwarc]

The "free" VMWare is just a "player": you can run pre-installed virtual
machines with it, but you can't create a new one. I haven't tried to
(re)install a VM with it, but quite possibly it'll work.
--
Pierre Szwarc
Paris, France
PGP key ID 0x75B5779B
------------------------------------------------
Multitasking: Reading in the bathroom !
------------------------------------------------

"MCSE" <[email protected]> a écrit dans le message de (e-mail address removed)...
|
| Will the free VMWare work? And that requires a bare-metal install,
doesn't
| it?

 

[Tom Porterfield]

My 5308 came on DVD from MS. Would you happen to know if this error is
due to the ISO being too large? I could try creating an ISO on disk and
capturing it, that may solve the problem.

I don't now as I was unaware that MS had shipped disks with 5308. Have you
tried using the disk on another machine to verify the disk isn't the
problem?

 

[Guest]

So is there a fix for Virtual PC 2004 or a new version coming?

 

[Tom Porterfield]

So is there a fix for Virtual PC 2004 or a new version coming?

Many have 5308 working fine under VPC, including myself. I haven't tried
5342 yet as I haven't had the time. But so far every Vista build prior to
5342 I have gotten to work under VPC. You will want he latest VPC
enhancements that are included with Virtual Server R2 to optimal
performance.

The only issue I am aware of is the one I have already mentioned in regards
to the size of the ISO file. There are several workarounds including
burning the ISO to DVD or using a utility such as daemon tools to mount the
ISO image to a virtual drive. Mounting such a large ISO directly by VPC
will not work.

 

[Guest]

When you say burn the ISO to a DVD, do you mean leave it as a *.ISO file or
actually "expand" the image to a full DVD (without the *.ISO but with all
files and folders contained in the ISO file)? I'm a little confused: If the
latter, I already have an MS DVD with 5308. If the former, didn't you say
VPC 2004 has trouble mounting large ISOs and how would this help?

Also, you mentioned the latest VPC extensions coming from Virtual Server R2.
So there are Virtual PC 2004 extensions on the Virtual Server R2 CD? I have
Virtual Server 2005 Standard, but that's not going to do it, is it? Is there
another place I can obtain the latest VPC 2004 extensions?

Thank you!

 

[gus19]

There is a free VMWare server ( does need a server host though - Linux or
Win 2000/2003)

http://www.vmware.com/products/server/

 

[Pierre Szwarc]

Thanks I wasn't aware of that one.
--
Pierre Szwarc
Paris, France
PGP key ID 0x75B5779B
------------------------------------------------
Multitasking: Reading in the bathroom !
------------------------------------------------

"gus19" <[email protected]> a écrit dans le message de (e-mail address removed)...
| There is a free VMWare server ( does need a server host though - Linux or
| Win 2000/2003)
|
| http://www.vmware.com/products/server/
|