posted on Tuesday, February 28, 2006 4:58 PM
by
Jonathan Hodgson
Windows Vista Feb CTP Build 5308 on VMWare
A few tips to help you install the Windows Vista February Community Technology Preview (CTP) build 5308 on VMWare 5.5.
First of my make sure you set your new virtual machine with a hard drive size of 8Gb and preallocate the space (important as the new setup process copies image directly to hard disk).
Then during the install, select the unallocated space, then new partition, format and then if the Next button in the wizard is still disabled, restart the VM and follow the steps again and now the Next button should be enabled.
Finally the "Install VM Tools" menu item didn't work, I had to manually map c:\program files\vmware\vmware workstation\windows.iso to the CD drive and then run the setup routine.
You should be up and running, minus the Aero UI which doesn't work with the software renderer.