Langleyben Leon : Longhorn PDC2005 CTP setup on VPC

posted on Thursday, September 22, 2005 4:57 PM by leon

Longhorn PDC2005 CTP setup on VPC

I finally succeeded to setup Longhorn Advanced Server PDC2005 CTP (from famous disk 6) on VPC 2004.
Couple of notes:

You can not mount Longhorn iso image in VPC directly. The reason is simple: VPC is not working very well with DVD images. You should burn it on the separate disk and then capture it from VPC.
I was unable to setup on new virtual disk (vhd). Longhorn setup insisted that partition is unavailable. To overcome this, I used old Win98 vhd, and formatted it from Longhorn setup.
The last thing: be patient, on 512Mb virtual machine, setup is painfully slow.