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    <title>topic Re: Issue creating a Win 8.1 Virtual Machine in Vshpere 5.1 in ESXi Discussions</title>
    <link>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/ESXi-Discussions/Issue-creating-a-Win-8-1-Virtual-Machine-in-Vshpere-5-1/m-p/2143094#M200774</link>
    <description>&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;HEAD&gt;&lt;/HEAD&gt;&lt;BODY&gt;&lt;P&gt;Hi&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Welcome to communities.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Please try through physical disc instead of ISO stored in storage.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;DIV style="border-top: 1px dotted #ccc; padding-top: 10px; color: #666; font-size: 0.8889em;"&gt; &lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/BODY&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;</description>
    <pubDate>Sun, 18 May 2014 22:18:54 GMT</pubDate>
    <dc:creator>grace27</dc:creator>
    <dc:date>2014-05-18T22:18:54Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Issue creating a Win 8.1 Virtual Machine in Vshpere 5.1</title>
      <link>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/ESXi-Discussions/Issue-creating-a-Win-8-1-Virtual-Machine-in-Vshpere-5-1/m-p/2143091#M200771</link>
      <description>&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;HEAD&gt;&lt;/HEAD&gt;&lt;BODY&gt;&lt;P&gt;Every time i try creating a win 8.1 vm in vsphere 5.1 it seems to can not find the&amp;nbsp; OS even though i know the iso is good.&amp;nbsp; Can anyone help me please?&amp;nbsp; I am banging my head against the wall.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BODY&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2014 23:13:21 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>fyc3010</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2014-05-16T23:13:21Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Issue creating a Win 8.1 Virtual Machine in Vshpere 5.1</title>
      <link>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/ESXi-Discussions/Issue-creating-a-Win-8-1-Virtual-Machine-in-Vshpere-5-1/m-p/2143092#M200772</link>
      <description>&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;HEAD&gt;&lt;/HEAD&gt;&lt;BODY&gt;&lt;P&gt;Can you be more specific? 'It seems it cannot find the OS' what does this mean? Perhaps only Esxi 5.5 fully supports Windows 8.1 I know under 5.1 I can create a windows 8 machine, then upgrade it to 8.1 and it works.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BODY&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 17 May 2014 05:16:14 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>ashleymilne</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2014-05-17T05:16:14Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Issue creating a Win 8.1 Virtual Machine in Vshpere 5.1</title>
      <link>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/ESXi-Discussions/Issue-creating-a-Win-8-1-Virtual-Machine-in-Vshpere-5-1/m-p/2143093#M200773</link>
      <description>&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;HEAD&gt;&lt;/HEAD&gt;&lt;BODY&gt;&lt;P&gt;Have a look at this &lt;A href="http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2006859" title="http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2006859"&gt;VMware KB: Windows 8 / Windows Server 2012 Operating System does not boot or install on ESXi or ESX &lt;/A&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;If this does not help, please elaborate more on the sequence of events and at which point in time you are running into an issue&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BODY&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 17 May 2014 06:38:13 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>CedricAnto</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2014-05-17T06:38:13Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Issue creating a Win 8.1 Virtual Machine in Vshpere 5.1</title>
      <link>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/ESXi-Discussions/Issue-creating-a-Win-8-1-Virtual-Machine-in-Vshpere-5-1/m-p/2143094#M200774</link>
      <description>&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;HEAD&gt;&lt;/HEAD&gt;&lt;BODY&gt;&lt;P&gt;Hi&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Welcome to communities.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Please try through physical disc instead of ISO stored in storage.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;DIV style="border-top: 1px dotted #ccc; padding-top: 10px; color: #666; font-size: 0.8889em;"&gt; &lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/BODY&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 18 May 2014 22:18:54 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>grace27</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2014-05-18T22:18:54Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Issue creating a Win 8.1 Virtual Machine in Vshpere 5.1</title>
      <link>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/ESXi-Discussions/Issue-creating-a-Win-8-1-Virtual-Machine-in-Vshpere-5-1/m-p/2143095#M200775</link>
      <description>&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;HEAD&gt;&lt;/HEAD&gt;&lt;BODY&gt;&lt;P&gt;I keep getting the error and i attached the image.&amp;nbsp; I burnt the iso to a disk and click on install to make sure it was working and it is.&amp;nbsp; I tried running it from to different iso's from my pc and the data store and i still get the same issue.&amp;nbsp; PS... one quick question, when i click on the dvd icon at the top and it shows me the dvd drives i can connect to is that the dvd drives on the server with vsphere or my main pc that i am connected from?&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper" image-alt="pastedImage_0.png"&gt;&lt;img src="https://communities.vmware.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/52113i3816695E8464ECDF/image-size/large?v=v2&amp;amp;px=999" role="button" title="pastedImage_0.png" alt="pastedImage_0.png" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BODY&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 20 May 2014 01:37:33 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>fyc3010</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2014-05-20T01:37:33Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Issue creating a Win 8.1 Virtual Machine in Vshpere 5.1</title>
      <link>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/ESXi-Discussions/Issue-creating-a-Win-8-1-Virtual-Machine-in-Vshpere-5-1/m-p/2143096#M200776</link>
      <description>&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;HEAD&gt;&lt;/HEAD&gt;&lt;BODY&gt;&lt;P&gt;From where did you get the .iso file?&amp;nbsp; Have you tested that you can &lt;STRONG&gt;boot&lt;/STRONG&gt; a physical machine from the same disc?&amp;nbsp; A drag-and-drop copy of the files from a Windows disc onto a new disc will create a disc that offers to install/upgrade when inserted into an existing Windows system, but a system will not be able to boot up from that same disc... there is much more to a bootable disc that gets missed out by a drag-and-drop copy.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Otherwise, please collect the &lt;STRONG&gt;vmware.log&lt;/STRONG&gt; from the virtual machine's directory, and attach it to a reply here.&amp;nbsp; (Choose &lt;STRONG&gt;Use advanced editor&lt;/STRONG&gt; when composing your reply, then attach the log file that way.)&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Cheers,&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;-- &lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Darius&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BODY&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 20 May 2014 02:39:13 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>dariusd</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2014-05-20T02:39:13Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Issue creating a Win 8.1 Virtual Machine in Vshpere 5.1</title>
      <link>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/ESXi-Discussions/Issue-creating-a-Win-8-1-Virtual-Machine-in-Vshpere-5-1/m-p/2143097#M200777</link>
      <description>&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;HEAD&gt;&lt;/HEAD&gt;&lt;BODY&gt;&lt;P&gt;some day back i had same issue... with installing win8 ..problem was my iso file..i have download new one and its working fine.. &lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BODY&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 20 May 2014 07:06:20 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>King_Robert</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2014-05-20T07:06:20Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Issue creating a Win 8.1 Virtual Machine in Vshpere 5.1</title>
      <link>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/ESXi-Discussions/Issue-creating-a-Win-8-1-Virtual-Machine-in-Vshpere-5-1/m-p/2143098#M200778</link>
      <description>&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;HEAD&gt;&lt;/HEAD&gt;&lt;BODY&gt;&lt;P&gt;The dvd drive that you connect to is the dvd drive of the PC that you are currently on ( the PC that is running the vSphere client) Make sure the dvd is in your PC.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BODY&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 20 May 2014 13:21:21 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>homerzzz</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2014-05-20T13:21:21Z</dc:date>
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