vmware windows vista

Hi, I'm trying to get VMWare Workstation to run under Windows Vista Beta 2. I have two PC's on which I have installed Vista and on one of them VMWare runs with no problem, on the other which has different hardware but essentially the same configutation VMWare crashes the whole system. Does anyone know of a workaround for this problem?

Vista is not yet supported as a Host OS in VMWare workstation, so getting it to work is rather trial and error.
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Hi, I'm trying to get VMWare Workstation to run under Windows Vista Beta 2. I have two PC's on which I have installed Vista and on one of them VMWare runs with no problem, on the other which has different hardware but essentially the same configutation VMWare crashes the whole system. Does anyone know of a workaround for this problem?

Which version of Vmware?
Both 4.53 and 5.5 run under Vista.
On Wed, 21 Jun 2006 02:58:02 -0700, gpc wrote:

Hi, I'm trying to get VMWare Workstation to run under Windows Vista Beta 2. I have two PC's on which I have installed Vista and on one of them VMWare runs with no problem, on the other which has different hardware but essentially the same configutation VMWare crashes the whole system. Does anyone know of a workaround for this problem?

I've been running VMWare workstation in Vb2 - version 5.5.something - Runs fine. I have an XP installation for applications that are not yet supported in vista.
You do mean installing VMWare IN vista, not the other way round?
Steve
"gpc" wrote in message

Hi, I'm trying to get VMWare Workstation to run under Windows Vista Beta 2. I have two PC's on which I have installed Vista and on one of them VMWare runs with no problem, on the other which has different hardware but essentially the same configutation VMWare crashes the whole system. Does anyone know of a workaround for this problem?

There really isn't much that I think anyone can do unfortunately. As was stated, Vista is still not fully supported as a host OS, and as such, if it works, it works, if not, then it doesn't. My guess is that it is probably driver related in how VMWare maps its virtual hardware to the host hardware, but I could be wrong. I have some of an issue with VMWare Workstation 5.5 in that it can take a long time to actually start a virtual machine, and pretty much locks the system while doing so. I've also had issues where shutting down or restarting the virtual machine will cause a memory error and BSOD. ---------- Mark Dietz PROnetworks <http://www.pro-networks.org>
gpc wrote:

Hi, I'm trying to get VMWare Workstation to run under Windows Vista Beta 2. I have two PC's on which I have installed Vista and on one of them VMWare runs with no problem, on the other which has different hardware but essentially the same configutation VMWare crashes the whole system. Does anyone know of a workaround for this problem?