VMware player on ubuntu 10.04 unable to install guest Vista

[olly1]

Hi all,

I have a laptop with dual boot Vista and Ubuntu:

1 partition 50 GB VISTA ntfs

2 partition data 300 GB ntfs

3 partition ext3 linux /

4 partition ext3 linux /home

5 partition swap.

In windows with VMware Converter I have create a virtual machine from phisical machine of the first partition.

The result is a .vmx file 2,6KB that is the VM and a .vmdk (21,6GB) stored in partition 2 (data) because i have no space from /home

Then i boot from linux, start vmplayer, open a virtual machine and search for vmx file.

The problem is that i can't install Vista because the player it's unable to access the device (unable to run the installation)

Any suggestion is apprecciated..thanks all

[vSpike]

Can you access to "Data" partition from Ubuntu?

[olly1]

yes, i mount it.

after many attempts i think that's not possible to install from image Disk System without a setup disk.

Thanks for your reply