So I have been trying to virtualize my accountants old vista computer, for a week now. I have tried to create the vmx file and have it automatically reconfigure all in one go, but it fails at 99%, tried with out it so it just creates the volume and then do it, gives me a "unable to find the system volume, reconfiguration is not possible" error. I am so stuck its ridiculous.
Booting the vm machine in VMware Player produces a black screen.
So here is what i think is wrong with it. The machine is a 32bit OS, yet it was reading up to 3gigs of ram. I have read that could be an issue. So i took out the extra stick of ram, and changed in msconfig the amount of ram to load. Then tried to create the VM again.
Log file below.
I cannot stress enough how frustrated i am with this machine, I have done so many virtualizations never a problem.
Help me, "insert name here", your my only hope.