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roydsam
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Contributor

VMware 9 workstation problem.


I recently downloaded VMWare  9 (i think it's the latest version). I want to use WindowsXP on it and am currently running Windows8 (host). i have already started the installation process, i was prompted for product key i typed that correctly. while it was copying setup files, all of a sudden my PC just went OFF and restarted. i don't know what happened. i tried to install again and it restarted again!



i had the same problem while installing backtrack5.



what might be the problem? are there possible solutions. PLEASE HELP!

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dariusd
VMware Employee
VMware Employee

Hi roydsam, and welcome to the VMware Communities!

Please check that you have installed at least version 9.0.1 of VMware Workstation.  Version 9.0.0 contained a defect which could trigger host reboots when running some guest OSes on hosts with Windows 8 and relatively new CPUs.

Cheers,

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Darius

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