Vista OEM with SP1

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No, you can now virtualize all versions of Vista.... there was a change in policy.

Also, go for x64. You will not have any problems on a desktop at all (laptop gfx card drivers are a separate issue, and are painful to get at least for ATI).

x64 is pretty stable, the only time I faced a crash was once when resuming from hibernate (the hibernation file was corrupt and it said as much). Otherwise, none whatsoever.

And Vista is pretty responsive now after all the patches, though it still requires a heavier PC than I'd like (though with 2GB Ram you won't have any problem).
 
KingKrool said:
No, you can now virtualize all versions of Vista.... there was a change in policy.
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I may have misread the announcement, but I believe you can only use them all as "guests", I still believe you can't use Home Premium as a "host", but I will download the latest VMWare Server (1.0.5?) and try installing it to see if it now does not complain :)
 
AFAIK there was never a restriction (on MS's part) on using a particular OS as a host. That "restriction" was VMWare's and even they didn't enforce it (they just didn't support it).

In any case, you can always use Virtual PC2007 or Virtual Server 2005 if VMWare Server complains.
 
If you happenned to know any other slipstreaming method other then the sysprep image method..then please share that with us !
I am hunting for a method to integrate sp1 into vista for last 1 month !!!!!!

Thouht vlite could do that...but alas...
 
"Well..."
Okay. So here's the deal. And those of you who have experienced the SP1 installation have experienced this as well. When you do the SP1 installation, even if it's from Windows Update (when available), you're going to see your machine shutdown and restart on it's own several times. That's to be expected. See, there's this important part of the OS known as the "servicing layer" in Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008. This is the part of the OS that allows for easy update installation with minimal disruptions, allows for an update to be applied to an offline captured image that's within a .wim file, among other things. Well... let's say that that servicing layer ALSO needed to be updated? What then?

"Oh.. I get it. You can't update the thing that makes the updates happen smoothly, because the thing that makes updates go smoothly is itself being updated!"
Bingo. You got it. So hopefully the news that you can't just do an offline upgrade to an image .WIM file won't be too tragic.

"So.. what do I do instead?"
You are going to have to install your image to a machine. Install the Service Pack. Then re-capture the image.
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Well I downloaded SP1 from a download link, but not from windows auto-update..

and worked well, dont know about performance increase because I haven't felt any issue in past ..

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