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By Rob, August 5, 2009 1:36 PM

It might seem a little odd to some, attempting to install Microsoft Windows XP into a Virtual Machine running on VMware’s ESX 3.5. That’s more of a job for VMware Workstation or Player. However, I wanted to install a Windows XP VM in my ESX test environment, to try some things out. I was a little surprised when I was greeted with this message during the initial install though:

I’ve installed countless Windows Server 2003 VMs, and not had any issues. Pre-morning-coffee, it wasn’t immediately obvious why Windows XP would have any issues installing, especially as its listed as a supported VM type during the virtual hardware configuration steps. Continue reading 'Installing Windows XP on VMware ESX/ESXi – No Hard Disk Drive Found'»

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By Rob, February 9, 2009 12:16 PM

I was recently testing out VMWare SRM, and when I tried to install the SRM plugin for the Virtual Infrastructure client on my Windows XP machine, I got an error ’1155′. It went something along the lines of ‘instmsi30.exe not found’ and referenced my local temporary directory.

After a little headscratching, I discovered (as I’d suspected) that this was nothing to do with VMWare or the SRM plugin. Updating my Windows Installer using the package on the Microsoft site here, allowed me to continue with the plugin install.