I converted a Windows 7 PC into a virtual machine, which boots up fine on my Macbook with OS X 10.10 and Fusion 7, the mouse works but the keyboard not. Fusion wants me to install it's tools, but to do so I first need to enter the Windows logon password.
How can I enter my password?
Hi,
Usually this is because of an old keyboard driver from your physical host preventing the VM from working correctly.
See also this thread here:
Keyboard Not Working after VMWare Conversion
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Wil
thanks, that makes sense since the old machine was a ThinkPad. I'll look into this.
Meanwhile I got logged in by using the on-screen-keyboard, but I still can not install the VMware Tools because it cannot mount a virtual CD drive in the Guest-OS. I do not get an error message, there's just no CD-drive appearing in the guest-OS. Does this might have the same backround as the keyboard issue? (installed hardware drivers from the source machine?) How do I find out where the problem is?
Hi,
Make sure you migrated VM actually has a virtual CDrom in its hardware settings.
(Menu Virtual Machine -> Settings -> check that there is a CD drive in the list, if not add it)
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Wil
When I do so, I get a message that I can't add a CD drive because my host computer does not have a CD drive and it will add a virtual drive once the VM has started. (I have no addable device for a virtual drive) The checkbox for the drive is then unchecked and when I check it again with running VM nothing happens.
Hi,
Uh.. I'm not sure I understand what steps you exactly took, can't reproduce that here, but vaguely remember the error message.
It is perfectly fine for the host not to have a CDrom drive as it is most of the time used for pointing it to .iso images anyways.
With the virtual machine shut down (not suspended) go to:
- menu Virtual Machine
- settings
- If the "Removable devices" row has a CDrom drive then:
- select CD/DVD, advanced, Remove device
Now
-- click on "Add Device" button top right
-- select CD/DVD drive, use defaults (eg. Autodetect, and "connect" option checked), click on "Add"
-- go back to "show all" and it now should display the CD/DVD drive you just added
Did that help?
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Wil
For what it's worth, converting a physical machine always results in bloated, buggy, unstable VM's. You're almost always better off building a clean VM from scratch.
Here's what happens at the next startup of the VM after I do so:
Regardless if I click yes or no at this message, I do not have a virtual CD drive in the guest-OS.
Hi,
Could you attach the vmware.log files that are in your virtual machine folder to your reply here?
(On the virtual machine, right click and select "Show package contents" will open the folder in Finder)
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Wil
Hmm.. Ok.
With guest shut down and then under Virtual Machine -> settings, can you change the setting from "Autodetect" to select a .iso file?
If you don't have a iso file you can create a dummy file, like this in terminal:
touch dummy.iso
ActuallyI think you don't have to shut down the VM to change this.
Just in the Virtual Machine menu select menu option CD/DVD, "choose disk of image" and point it to dummy.iso or any other iso file.
Make sure that menu option CD/DVD says "disconnect CD/DVD" (meaning it is connected, click it if it says "connect CD/DVD")
If none of that helps then I'm starting to wonder if you are not running out of pci slotnumbers on the virtual motherboard and you could consider to drop one of your 5 virtual network cards.
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Wil
this is what my Device Manager in the Guest looks like:
I tried removing it and reinstalling the drivers, but it still says the device's driver is broken.
Hi,
Ah OK, with the virtual machine shut down, change the DVD bus type settings from SATA to IDE and see if it recognizes the DVD rom then.
I would have expected Windows 7 to just use the sata dvd rom drivers, but seems it has problems with that.
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Wil
Did that, with no change, shows the CD Drive still as broken driver in Device Manager
Ok, any more hardware specific lenovo drivers that are installed?
Have you tried removing some of those extra NICs? (You can always add them back later if there's a need)
Alternatively there are other ways for getting vmware tools installed, the CDRom is just an installation media and having vmware tools installed would at least give you better integration and features like shared folders.
Fusion 7.1.1 vmware tools is here:
It's a tar with zip file in there and in that you'll find the iso file.
You can use 7zip to unpack that. If your VM has network access then that might be easiest.
Alternatively if you or your VM has no network access, the .iso file is also in /Applications/VMware Fusion/Contents/Library/isoimages/windows.iso
You can mount the file with Finder and get the setup.exe or setup64.exe out to run the installer in the VM.
You would then need to temporarily add the vmdk of your imported VM to another VM to be able to copy in the installer files.... (if you have another VM you could also mount the iso in the path above manually) for copying the installer files in.
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Wil