在VMWare上安裝Windows Vista Beta

昨天晚上有點空閑時間，就在VMWare 5.5上安裝了Windows Vista Beta(December CTP)。VMWare支援Windows Vista Beta，它會推薦16G硬碟空間，不過剛開始安裝後，到了硬碟分區那部分就過不去了。VMWare 5.5的線上協助中對於Windows Vista Beta的介紹是過時的，實際上在VMWare上找到一篇更新的介紹：http://www.vmware.com/support/guestnotes/doc/guestos_winvista.html
主要內容如下，重點是第4到第8步。

1. Insert the Windows Vista CD in the CD-ROM drive.

2. Power on the virtual machine to start installing Windows Vista.

3. If using a blank hard disk: When the Windows Vista installer menu appears, choose the first option, Install Now.

If installing over an existing guest operating system: Skip to step 9.

4. Press Shift-F10 to open a command prompt.

5. Start the disk partitioning utility.

diskpart

6. Enter the following commands to partition the hard disk:

select disk 0
create partition primary

7. When the partitioning process is complete, click the Reset button to reboot the virtual machine.

8. As the virtual machine begins to reboot, while the VMware logo appears on the screen, click inside the virtual machine window, then press Esc to get to the BIOS boot menu. Choose CD-ROM Drive as the boot device, then continue installing Windows Vista beta.

9. In certain Windows Vista builds, the installer chooses an incorrect default in the screen titled Choose your installation destination. It shows a partition with 0 MB free and makes that partition the default destination.

At that screen, you must change the choice to the disk (instead of the partition), then click Continue.

10. Follow the remaining installation steps as you would for a physical machine.

經過這樣操作後就可以繼續安裝了，安裝的時間真長，而且沒有進度提示，經過了不知多長時間，終於完成了安裝，整個過程倒是自動的，用不著你在機器前等。 只是安裝過程都是在16色模式下執行的，很難看。再安裝VMWare Tools，就一切正常了，介面確實不錯，過幾天把自己的軟體都在上面試試。

如果你已經有一個XP虛擬機器，也可以在其上升級，這樣就沒有上面說的那些步驟了。