Impossible to install the guest operating system - no boot from CD

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• Impossible to install the guest operating system of recovery CD

  I recently bought a HP Pavilion and installed Ubuntu top. I wanted to get out of Windows and thought for my Windows needs little I would just run a VMWare session. But alas I have no installation media. So I ordered the HP "recovery" CD. They have recently arrived and when I try to install them I receive a dialog box stating "this PC is not supported by the system recovery discs! Help! I did not complete installation CD and I'm not going to pay $200 for them. Help!

  Hello David. Unfortunately, there is nothing you can do. The version of Windows that you got when you bought your system is a HP OEM disc. It won't work that directly on the HP hardware. As you are trying to install it on virtualized hardware, it will not work because the drive does not see the HP hardware.

  The only thing you could do would be to reinstall windows as your primary operating system and then install Ubuntu in a virtual machine.

  Sorry to give you the bad news.

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  See you soon

  Kevin

• Trouble installing the guest operating system

  All,

  Having trouble installing the guest operating system - Windows XP SP3. I followed the directions of the booklet that I try to boot from a local image and a CD. I can't able to get into the setup of the BIOS to start the virtual machine when you press F8. I am currently on a decentralized network that starts his BONES from a PXE server. When I turn on my VM, its shows the boot process than my actual desktop. I tried many configurations, but still problems. All instight would be useful. Thank you.

  Welcome to the forums!

  To enter the VMWare guest BIOS press F2, no F8.

  You can also add 'bios. BootDelay = 10000 "in the prompt .vmx file. This gives you more time to press F2.

  The virtual guest has a CD-ROM attached to it?

  Is it "connect to turn on?

  Is it connected to the physical machine (where the OS CD is inserted)?

  AWo

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• How to install the guest operating system (winndows)

  Hello

  Please send me the start-up stage guest operating system (windows Server 2008) of SAN.

  Concerning

  Mathon.

  It will detect as raw disk and then you need create the partition on the raw disk.

• Impossible to determine the guest operating system

  Hello, everyone:

  When I convert a physical server to a virtual of VI3 computer, I get the error "Unable to determine the operating system" at the beginning of the conversion, it points also "no adapter found' when the WinPE is starting up. the source computer is DELL R2950, make a RIAD 5 discs. any help is appreciate!  Converter lop add as attach files

  There are many posts already on these issues.  If you search the community forum for 2950 cold clone, there are several references that point to items such as:

  http://communities.VMware.com/message/1096541#1096541

  Kind regards

  EvilOne

  VMware vExpert 2009

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• Performance problem with the guest operating system

  Hello gurus - I have one of the most unusual questions, I ran into a few time.   Here it is:

  I have a guest w2008R2 OS - installed in a 5.1 version of VM 7 vSpherer - which has an Emulex LPe 12002-E 8 GB dual HBA port is assigned to the as 2 PCI (1 device per port) via DirectPath devices

  The guest operating system has an application that performs backup tests.   WWPN of the HBA is zoned in the fabric and declared in the interface of Compellent Storage Center and everything is good here. the application creates a replay of a volume, mount it as a drive, read all the blocks, then dismantles and moves then repeat the process with what ever additional volumes should be safeguarded.   It is so cool I have do this with a VM right and not a physical host?  (would be cool if I had work NPIV but that's another story, not with technology HBA vendor support...)

  So, what's the problem?   Well, the bed the mounted disk backup will work extremely slow as slow as 5MB\sec flow, then during any other activity takes place on the system the flow jumps up to 150MB\sec all of a sudden and will continue to run fast for a long time and finish jobs on time with each work taking a little more than an hour.  But when the slow going the same work (all jobs are the same, they are simply by reading all the blocks of a bunch of 200 GB volumes and wrote a set of NULL value, do not forget this is just test) takes up to 10 hours to complete.

  I think that what is the culprit?   POWER MANAGEMENT.

  I have just about each performance counter and the journal of events known to man and I don't see anything abnormal on the table, ESXi virtual machine, nothing.  But what I see in the newspapers is any kind of activity that could happen in a transparent manner to save energy.

  FACTS on this case:

  -Reservation of memory is defined (it must be for directpath otherwise, you can't power on the virtual machine)

  -Booking CPU - has not been defined before an hour ago, I gave her just a small reserve for this rule, so I do not know if this will help alleviate the slow flow, or have an effect on what I think is a question of power (unit linked) management

  -windows power management is set to high performance never-ever - but not until an hour there doesn't I changed advanced settings for USB Disabled------turned off.  PCI peripheral energy saving setting was already off.  Which is in contradiction with my theory.  But maybe, just maybe, something is broken somewhere, or could be a bug... blah blah blah

  -the HBA, Emulex, as it appears in Device Manager in the guest OS doesn't have a power management tab to disable the feature, I don't see that the adapter VMXNET3 had this tab, and I turn off the power save setting to be conservative, do not think that it was the culprit, but as there is no real data running through the NIC.  The data is simply to be read from the disk mounted, not copied on any wire Ethernet.  never the less, in the Emulex properties is a Details tab and a selection of power data, and performance data indicate you what power mode, the device is, as well as feeding supported systems.  D0: full power, but D3, which shows as supported by the device, is an energy saving mode.   I could not yet attend the setting at the time of slow activity, my good intention as soon as possible. He is currently shooting in D0, full power.

  This is so what I have to offer on this, I hope that its just...   If I'm missing something, or if others have experienced this massive loss of unknown flow without reason and have resolutions, please share.

  If there is a way for me to disable power on the Emulex HBA management inform you please, I don't mind if I stop to enter the firmware, if that was even possible.  But if possible I would disable it immediately before any new tests are executed.

  The root cause of this issue has never been identified by VMware support which for me is a question of ugly.  Reservation of CPU for the VM using directpath IO with HBA installed in it corrected the problem.  I'd be leary with direct path IO.

• CPU has been disabled by the guest operating system error

  Running VMPlayer 3.1.3 version 324285 build on Windows 7 Enterprise 64 bit with 8G of memory.

  When I try to install some VMs based on Linux of ISOs, in a few seconds, I get the error:

  "The CPU has been disabled by the guest operating system. You must turn off or reset the virtual machine at this point. »

  (See also the screenshot attached)

  This happens on other ISOs based on Linux/Windows. I googled the web & VMTN, but have not found relevant

  answer my question.

  Thanks in advance

  Alex

  Hello

  What operating system is tryining install you?

  Take a minute to watch in VMware Compatibility Guide: search guest conductor /and try to upgrade to a version 3.1.4 If your system does not support the direct execution of 64-bit.

  Concerning

• Performance of the guest operating system Win2k3

  VM Workstation: v6.5.5 build 328052

  Host OS: WinVista Ultimate (64-bit)

  4 GB of physical RAM

  50 GB of free space

  64 bit chip

  OS comments: 1) Windows 2003 SBS 2) Windows 2003 SBS

  1 GB OF RAM 1 GB OF RAM

  8GB 32 GB space space allocated

  < < SLOW > > < < ACCEPTABLE > >

  The issue I'm having is on the slopes significantly slower than #2 #1 VM.  #2 works pretty decently.  #1... well over this long last week I started it after being unused for awhile.  I got the prompt to install VMTools so I did this. He took over 36 hours to install VMTools!  ;-((.  I want to update the operating system with updates from MS since several months, but I did not "months (or more!" to run through the update.

  What are the options (performance etc.) would you suggest for #1?  Apparently, the two #1 and #2 are the same, as far as I KNOW, in all other aspects of the guest operating system and settings.  Is there a setting/performance video or paper about this game and how build/debugging etc. for optimal performance?

  TIA!

  Hello.

  How did they build each of these virtual machines out there?

  #1 is slow if #2 is also well off?

  Good luck!

• Antivirus on the guest operating system

  Hello:

  When the host operating system has an antivirus and is updated in the calendar, the guest operating system needs a separately installed antivirus? Because the internet connection through the host operating system, won't Take Care of any potential threat antivirus agenda

  ... no antivirus (host) take care of any potential threat?

  Not necessarily.  For example, if the virtual machine is set to bridged networking, then the virtual machine appears like any other physical machine on the network and is NOT protected by AV. host if you set NAT network, the host behaves as a personal router (e.g.: Linksys box.)  Always install you an AV on your computer, even if you have a hardware router.  So even for your virtual machine.

  Others will probably give many examples more and better than I, but as a general rule, treat your virtual machine just like any other machine.  If you have installed an AV on a physical machine with this OS, you must install an AV when the OS is virtual.

• VMPlayer newbie - switch back and forth between the host and the guest operating system

  I am newbie to VMPlayer. I just installed VMPlayer 3.0.0 build-203739 on Red Hat Linux 5 (host). Then I created a VM comments Kubuntu (8.10). So far so good. In the VMPlayer window, I selected 'play Virtual Machine '. After this, the host operating system controls disappeared and I could see a taskbar on the top of my screen and I could also see Kubuntu startup (in an area of the small window in the center of the screen). The problem I'm running is that I'm not able to navigate outside of this area of the small window. I'm not even able to click/Select the taskbar of VMPlayer top of the screen. The mouse movement is limited to the area of the small window. How to and fro my host and the guest operating system? Is there a key combination? I finally had to stop my VM guest to return to the control of my host system. I guess it's a problem quite newbie that I am running. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

  Hello, welcome to the forum

  Host Windows to switch between comments and the OS (when you are in the guest operating system), you must use ctrl + alt.

  According to this link , it's the same thing in Linux host too.

  >Default VMware Player uses key combination Ctrl + Alt to jump out of the guest. Then CTRLAltdel is accessible via theAltInsert command. If you find this annoying, you can change the jump shortcut to CtrlAltshift by adding the following lines to your ~/.vmware/preferences:

  > pref.hotkey.shift = "true".

  > pref.hotkey.control = "true".

  > pref.hotkey.alt = "true".

  After your installation OS in the virtual machine, install "VMware Tools" on it so you will get better performance and some improvements (like moving your mouse out of guest to your host operating system operating system and Vice Versa, or be able to copy beyond host/guest, better resolution on reviews and...)

  I hope it helps a bit.

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• Parallel logic LSI, LSI logic SAS, parallel Buslogic (not recommended for the guest operating system), vmware paravirtual

  Infrastructure:

  vSphere

  ESX 4

  Reference Dell R710 Server

  I install WIN 2003 x 64 as a virtual server on ESX 4, when I select LSI logic SAS & LSI logic parallel it does not detect the hard drive, do I need driver if so where can I download?

  For parallel bus logic (not recommended for the guest operating system) & Vmware paravirtual, do I have to select this option for my win 2003 R2 x 64 edition?

  Please help on this issue.

  ~ Rashid

  If you really want to use it for installation, you will need to extract the driver from the VMware Tools ISO and add it to a disk image.

  Dave

  VMware communities user moderator

  New book in town - Start Guide quick vSphere -http://www.yellow-bricks.com/2009/08/12/new-book-in-town-vsphere-quick-start-guide/.

  You have a system or a PCI with VMDirectPath?  Submit your specifications to the unofficial VMDirectPath HCL - http://www.vm-help.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=21.

• 10 mb on the guest operating system network connection

  I just installed ESXi 4.0 on a server that has 6 physical Gigabit NIC I only got one of them enabled for now. I created a new virtual machine with a clean install of Windows XP Pro and I was quite surprised to find that when finally completed XP installation, she did know that the speed of 10mbit NETWORK card. Although the physical NETWORK adapter on the server is a Gigabit NIC, its connected to a 10/100 switch and the lisghts on the connection stating that the ESXi NIC host operating at 100 Mbps. Is there a reason why the guest operating system should see a 10mbit connection?

  Concerning

  Eugene Gill

  I agree with the previous post, but it should also check your network connection on your host computer speed (host, configuration tab, click on networking) to see how fast has been negotiated.

• VMWARE Newbie - installation problems with the guest operating system

  I heard a lot about the use of VMWARE for a long time so I downloaded and then installed ESXI 3.5 on a test area.  I installed the client and have been able to create a new virtual machine.  However, I run into some difficulty with installing a guest operating system.  All the pdf that I could find have suggested that simply by putting a CD in the server's drive and then turn on the virtual machine would start the my guest operating system installation process.  Unfortunately, my VM doesn't seem to see my CDRom and tent drive a start-up network, followed by a brief wait for the message 'Operating system not found' timeout.

  Can someone please help me find a way to create a new guest OS on my VM so that I can.

  1. understand the process

  2 start testing.

  Thank you in advance.

  If you have installed of course the VI Client to create the VM, and you insert the CD into the ESXi host? You can go to change settings on the virtual machine, click the CD/DVD and select the option use the host device. Also ensure the connection to turn on is checked.  When you turn on the virtual machine, it should see the CD that you inserted in your ESXi host. Once you get the operating system to load, you can configure to allow remote desktop connections and access the VM as a traditional physical machine, rather than relying on the console of the VI Client view.

• If I buy windows 8 (any OS windows) now and install in my computer and after a year when I change my computer, can I install the SAME operating system in the new computer?

  If I buy windows 8 (any OS windows) now and install in my computer and after a year when I change my computer, can I install the SAME operating system in the new computer?

  You can if you buy a commercial box full of Windows 8 version.

  If you buy a computer with Windows preinstalled, or a version OEM of Windows 8, 8 No, you can't.

  If you buy a version upgrade, you can, as long as the new computer has a licensed version earlier of Windows on them.

• Avoid checking "the guest operating system has locked the door of CD-ROM. disconnect anyway and replace the lock?

  Using PowerCLI, I'm trying to create a script that logs off the CD player and affects the client machine and Passthrough IDE using the command:

  Get-cddrive - VM SRVVM616 - netscan02.kb.se | game-cddrive - nomedia - confirm: $false

  * (where SRVVM616 - netscan02.kb.se is the VM name in this case)

  But I can't get rid of an audit question that arises in vSphere Client:

  'The guest operating system has locked the door of CD-ROM...

  Unplug anyway and replace the lock? »

  The script hangs until I answered the question, and who does the idea of a useless script?

  How can I avoid this issue?

  Maybe the method I described in answer to the question! could help.