{"id":11,"date":"2007-10-19T11:01:41","date_gmt":"2007-10-19T09:01:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pieter.wigleven.com\/it\/archives\/11"},"modified":"2007-10-19T11:03:41","modified_gmt":"2007-10-19T09:03:41","slug":"installing-windows-in-vmware-hangs-on-installing-devices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pieter.wigleven.com\/it\/archives\/11","title":{"rendered":"Installing Windows in VMware hangs on &#8220;installing devices&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today i had to install Windows 2003 R2 + SP2 (downloaded from MSDN) within a virtual machine because i needed a DC for a physical testcluster (if your not into IT, this sentence must be a pain in the ass).<\/p>\n<p>I noticed that the installer just kept on going forever at the &#8220;installing devices&#8221; part.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Did you know that you can press SHIFT-F11 during setup to see that windows is doing? In this case the &#8216;add new hardware&#8217; wizard was running.<br \/>\nYou can also use SHIFT-F10 to get a command prompt<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>After some research i found the solution:<br \/>\n1) Reset the virtual machine (don&#8217;t boot from cdrom)<br \/>\n2) Keep the focus within the virtual machine (don&#8217;t ctrl-alt)<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ll see it works this time, probably has something to do with the detection of keyboard and\/or mouse.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"372\" src=\"https:\/\/pieter.wigleven.com\/it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/10\/vmware.JPG\" alt=\"VMware, yeah!\" height=\"227\" style=\"width: 372px; height: 227px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today i had to install Windows 2003 R2 + SP2 (downloaded from MSDN) within a virtual machine because i needed a DC for a physical testcluster (if your not into IT, this sentence must be a pain in the ass). I noticed that the installer just kept on going forever at the &#8220;installing devices&#8221; part. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vmware"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pieter.wigleven.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pieter.wigleven.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pieter.wigleven.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pieter.wigleven.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pieter.wigleven.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pieter.wigleven.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pieter.wigleven.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pieter.wigleven.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pieter.wigleven.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}