Trying to give something back to the Community...
So as I’m in the process of building my lab server I thought I’d build a Windows 7 machine to have a “play with”. So I downloaded the ISO and tried to create a new VM in Hyper-V. VM starts and I click “Install Now”.
Then I get the following message back:
“Windows could not collect information for [OSImage] since the specified image file [install.wim] does not exist”
Googling this seems to suggest that I need to burn the ISO to a CD and that MAY fix it. Hang on a minute what’s the point of having the ability to build a VM from an ISO image if you have to burn that ISO to a DVD/ CD, kind of defeats the object doesn’t it? I could understand it if this was an old OS but this is Microsoft’s latest and supposedly greatest (not in my opinion so far based on my experience).
So for now I’ll hold fire and wait until the next Beta comes out when HOPEFULLY they’ve fixed this.
Burn the CD, assign the CD drive to a VM, build it. Doesn't take long to burn a CD. Its not like this went RTM and they are asking customers to go this route to get it installed ;-)
Putting Win7 in to a VM is going to disable most of the nice UI elements anyway.
It is an early beta, and majority of folk are putting this on a real machine to measure performance increases, including myself. Being a VM Tourist with an early beta ... you're bound to get some niggles appearing. Patience, but I understand your point, ISO mounted by Hyper-V, install, play ...
Far more shocking things will be revealed soon, the SKU's, version of Win7 that are going to be available is fueling a lot of rumours (and screenshots) of what Microsoft could offer us, in terms of versions. Remember that Vista has 1 zillion SKU's, most of which shouldn't exist. Ultimate and Business should be the only two options, think it's a scam to say they made different versions to save people a few bucks here and there. An OS is an OS, there shouldn't be multiple versions that just switch on a few features (Home Premium to Ultimate for example, total joke).
My ten cents worth on Win7 ... well i'm going to write them up in a blog posting this weekend. But for now, I have to say i'm mighty impressed with Win7. I know it's born from the ashes of a previous OS (Vista, which wasn't so bad when you think about it, buggy sure, but the media tagged it as bad and MS haters fueled it), as well as originating from the Longhorn code soure, but it really has that polished look about it, even DX11 is stable enough to game on. Almost a solid OS and DEFINATELY going to ruffle MAC\NIX feathers. A new punchy OS is on the block, watch out competition!
Problem is Rob, Googling this issue it's peeing a LOT of folks off - not a great start for a product Microsoft has high hopes for.
I'm not being anti-MS/ Win 7 here (hell slice my arm off and I've got "Microsoft" embedded in me like a stick of rock :-), but they REALLY need to think about stuff like this otherwise it's going to get bad press, something none of us want.