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Metie
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‎09-18-2018 04:19 AM

Can't install windows 10 (vm workstation)?

I tried 3 different versions of windows, and 2 different versions of vm, booting from iso and dvd and every one of them stuck at some phase of the installation.

Every time when it tries to reboot after finishing a phase (like preparing files), the loading screen remains for 6 hours (when i restart the vm), sometimes the loading circle moving, sometimes frozen. The task manager shows 100% processor usage and some ram usage. I'd be very grateful for any help, need the program installed for university for tomorrow. Pls help.

This one was running for 5 hours and stuck at installing windows updates:

vmware.log - Google Drive

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bluefirestorm
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‎09-18-2018 07:41 AM

These lines indicate you are using easy-install. Try to do a manual install.

2018-09-18T13:02:53.810+02:00| vmx| I125: DICT          floppy0.fileType = "file"

2018-09-18T13:02:53.810+02:00| vmx| I125: DICT          floppy0.fileName = "autoinst.flp"

Try disabling the 3D acceleration as well as the CPU you have is only 2 core CPU. You can still enable after the OS install is complete.

2018-09-18T13:02:53.809+02:00| vmx| I125: DICT              mks.enable3d = "TRUE"

You could also try adding 1 vCPU to the VM; although it is generally not advisable to max out the host CPU cores.

2018-09-18T13:02:53.525+02:00| vmx| I125: hostCPUID name: Intel(R) Celeron(R) 2957U @ 1.40GHz

2018-09-18T13:02:53.981+02:00| vmx| I125: NumVCPUs 1

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