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I used the automatic, super-simple automatic install version.Ģ) I did put in my upgrade Product Key. It will probably suggest Vista 64-bit, which seems to make sense. Start up vmware and put the upgrade disk in. Mine is on a Mac.ġ) Unless you are running a 64-bit version of Vista as a starting point, Win7 needs a clean install. iso I did not try that as I have the boxed version.Ģ) An existing Windows virtual machine. I'm sure someone who has already used this technique below will let everyone know if the final activation step works.ġ) A Win 7 64-bit upgrade disk, possibly from a download turned into an. I'm not ready to activate Win7 yet, so I have not taken that final step. It seems like vmware makes it pretty easy.

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I read a few of the discussions about how to install Win7 64-bit. So, I now have a fully working, authorised Windows 7 Pro 圆4 installation. The installer ran smoothly, though did stall at the 'Completing installation' stage I detached and then re-attached the USB HD, which seemed to kick it back into life, and the installer accepted my product key and finished the installation. It saw the partitions on the HD when the installer was running, at the point it asks which partition to install on.

In the end, the only way I could do this was to install an old hard drive with XP on it in a USB caddy, and have that plugged in and attach it to the VM as soon as it boots, as the installer runs. Unfortunately, it's really difficult to attach another HD to a fresh VM. The only way to install on the VM with an upgrade is to have some form of XP installation available. This version of the installer never asks for a valid Windows XP/Vista Installation CD and product key, though I'm lead to believe that the official upgrade DVD does.ĥ. Leaving out the product key, I could finish the installation and booted succesfully, but when I tried to authorise Windows, again, the product key was not meant for 'clean' installations. This allowed the installation to run through, but when it came to putting in the product key, it said it was invalid. I created a new VM, using the 'Windows Server 2008 圆4 Edition' setup, booting from the. There's just no way to 'update' an XP VM.Ĥ. I tried changing the VM setup from 'Windows XP Professional' to 'Windows Server 2008 圆4 Edition' and 'Windows Vista 圆4 Edition', but this made the VM unbootable.

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I tried a number of times to update the Windows XP Pro VM with the iso, but I couldn't get it to work.

There's a few other sites with similar information now. I followed the instructions in this thread on Windows7forums, though the syntax for the command wasn't correct for me (looks like it's been updated now), though browsing through the thread got the right syntax. However, trying to run the setup.exe in this folder results in an error message that it can't run as it isn't a win32 executable.

Sure that you have security permission on the folder to write files andĪt the end of extraction, but so long as you have 874 files in 199 folders with a size of 3,239,836,668 (圆4 Pro version), it'll be fine. Please check the folder properties to make We are unable to create or save new files in the folder in which thisĪpplication was downloaded. box files to a folder called expandedSetup. I ran the 'Win7-P-Retail-en-us-圆4.exe' file that extracts the two. In my Win XP VM, I downloaded the Windows 7 Professional 圆4 installer.

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I'm running an XP 32 bit VM on Fusion 2.0.6, no boot camp, and don't have any version of Vista, but I bought Windows 7 圆4. That's fine if you're on a real Windows machine you can create a DVD and reformat during the update, and your update Product key should work. Everything else requires a clean install.

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The main issue is that you can only use the downloaded version of Windows 7 to do an IN-PLACE update on an existing Vista installation OF THE SAME BIT-NESS ie Vista 32 bit -> Win 7 32 bit, or Vista 64 bit -> Win 7 64 bit. So I thought I'd post my successful experience here. Mostly this is to do with authorisation, and I haven't seen ANY reports of success under virtualisation. Seems like a lot of people are having problems installing the upgrade version (student version), which is downloaded from Digital River.

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