trouble installing VMware WS 6.0 on Dell PC

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I tried installing VMware Workstation 6.0 on a Dell PC running Windows

2000 Pro. The guest OS was also Windows 2000. When I fed it

the installation CD it said that the OS only installed on Dell machines.

Well this IS a Dell machine. What am I missing?

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what are you exactly installing here,

1 - Vmware Workstation

2 - a copy of Windows 2000 as a guest.

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Vmware installed fine. It's installing Win 2000 Pro as a guest OS that's

causing the problem. (As it turns out the host OS is also Win 2000)

Are you using the Dell CDs to install the guest OS? The guest OS uses virtual hardware[/i] which is not made by Dell and thus the CD would report "not a Dell machine."

Also, is the CD a "recovery" or a "reinstallation" CD that goes through the normal Windows setup? In the past I've used Dell reinstallation CDs of Windows XP on non-Dell machines, but I don't have a Dell Windows 2000 CD to try.

Your 2000 in a VM sees a VMware BIOS not a DELL BIOS.

Maybe you can cheat it like discussed here

http://sanbarrow.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=448

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Thanks for the rapid replies.

Re asatoran's post, Yes I'm using Dell CD's. The CD is a normal

installation CD, not a resinstall/recovery version. The speculation that

the Virtual hardware doesn't match what the Dell install code is looking

for makes sense. I'll see if the pointer in the post after his can get me past

this. Otherwise I may have to buy a generic non-Dell installation CD.

The following knowledge base article may help explain why you are unable to use an OEM CD.

"Cannot Restore OEM Operating System Into a Virtual Machine"[/url]

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trouble installing VMware WS 6.0 on Dell PC