How To Install Windows Server 2008 On Vmware Workstation
- How To Install Windows Server 2008 64 Bit On Vmware Workstation
- How To Install Windows Server 2008 R2 On Vmware Workstation 10
- How To Install Windows Server 2008
I am attempting to install VMWare Workstation on Windows 2008R2 server. When I attempt the install, the installer crashes with a dialog box as below with the diagnostics shown below. This happens with installers for VMWare Workstation 7 and 8.
Dec 05, 2013 Steps to Install and configure Windows 2008 R2 on Vmware workstation 10. Once this is done you can enable RDP on the Windows VM and connect to it. When you are connecting to the RDP you can click on options and share the local drives of Windows 8 with windows 2008. Jan 13, 2015 - 4 min - Uploaded by TechLairLearn how to install windows server 2008 on VMware Workstation by watching this step by step.
What is causing this and how does one fix the problem so VMWare will install?
The contents of the diagnostic are as follows:
Der Hochstapler2 Answers
Disable the built in virtualization feature Hyper-V in windows server 08. Only one virtualization system can be installed in a system
First, just to rule it out, redownload the application and/or do a CRC check and just make sure it is fine.
Next, I have never tried, so, I can't say for certain - but, based on the text (and look) of the dialog box and personal experience of how VMWare Workstation works, I would say that you need to install the Windows Desktop Experience Feature - this will install codecs and other items.
Again, not seen this before, however, Workstation does funky things with pretty much everything, and if the installer is failing on windowscodecs.dll, that is my only thought.
This being said, it should fail on the application - not the installer, so, again, it is a guess!
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I'm trying to install Windows 2008 R2 on VMWare, and I got this error:
A required CD/DVD drive device driver is missing. If you have a driver floppy disk, CD, DVD or usb flash drive, please insert it now.
I was trying to install it from ISO, daemon and from DVD drive, but always get this error.
Iain5 Answers
How To Install Windows Server 2008 R2 On Vmware Workstation 10
Your ISO image is corrupt.
Check with MSDN to make sure the SHA1 hash of your file is the same as what you have on your computer. It took me 3 tries to download one with the same hash as what shows on the MSDN site. In fact, the first one I burned to a DVD and installed on a physical machine so I thought it had to be good.
I used fciv to verify my SHA1 in windows.
This happens for me as well when it starts after installation (or before installation if you didn't create new VM from image): it happens to me because I have PowerISO installed which has created a virtual DVD and the machine is configured in 'Settings...' to 'Use physical device...: Auto Detect' and it selects the virtual DVD. Selecting an ISO, removing the DVD or manually selecting the correct device name (E: in my case) fixes the problem.
When installing a new machine, VMware asks you to install from:1: Installer Disk (here you select the CD-ROM witch contains the OS, physical drive or virtual drive)2: Installer Disk Image (and this is what you should do, select your image containing the OS you want to install)
You can set this option later in your new machine window, in the Devices tab double click on the CD/DVD (IDE) and choose Use ISO image file (browse for iso file)
How To Install Windows Server 2008
hope it works:)
Check your VM hardware: using the 'typical' installation with EasyInstall works fine on VMware workstation 7.0. If that fails, check your installation media: you might be using a corrupted ISO image.
StephaneStephaneI second that this is most likely a corrupt .iso. I'm actually currently fighting through what appears to be an Akamai (content delivery network) node with a bad copy stored, so until I can get it to expire or assign a new node for download I'm stuck. Note that even if you're a volume licensing customer and not MSDN, the SHA1 hashes are still available to view on the MSDN site even if the downloads are not accessible (for some unknown reason they're missing from the licensing download site).
For the ...x15-59754.iso, the SHA1 is AD855EA913AAEC3F1D0E1833C1AEF7A0DE326B0A
For the ...x15-50365.iso, the SHA1 is A548D6743129F2A02C907D2758773A1F6BB1BCD7