[57north-discuss] [57north-announce] Openday Thursday,

[Tony Travis]

On 15/09/15 13:15, Dave Hibberd wrote:
>> Hi, Doc.
>>
>> I'll be in trying to decide if I should re-install Windows 7 on my
>> laptop just so that I can get a 'free' upgrade to Windows 10 :-)
>>
>> [Crashed and burned trying to do the upgrade in a VirtualBox VM]
>>
>> Bye,
>>
>>   Tony.
>>
>
> I'll only be in briefly as I've got a pub to attend this evening.
>
> Tony - I had a physical install of Win8 on a machine, and used
> clonezilla to back it up.
> Following this, I used clonezilla in a VM environment and a network
> shared folder to 'restore' that image to a virtual machine.
>
> Maybe that way, you can get the best of both worlds!

Hi, Hibbie.

I already used VMware P2V to 'virtualise' my native Windows 7 install
and I've been using the image produced to run a Windows 7 VM under
VirtualBox (Linux host, Windows 7 guest).

The problem is that the Windows 10 upgrade on my Windows 7 VM reports
that my CPU isn't supported and refuses to do the upgrade. If I force
the upgrade, it runs through, but then borks at the last minute and
back-pedals to Windows 7...

I've Googled this topic to death and many other people have the same
problem with the "get Windows 10" 'app' running in a Windows 7 VM.

As a last resort, I'm now thinking of re-installing Windows 7 on bare
metal to upgrade it then use P2V to virtualise the upgraded Windows 10.

The really INFURIATING thing is that I can install Windows 10 in a VM
without any problem and it runs, but it needs to be 'activated'. I then
used the SAME VM, but switched to the Windows 7 virtual media and it
STILL complains that the CPU isn't supported! (i.e. I used the actual
VirtualBox VM that ran Windows 10 successfully, but with the Windows 7
media so there was NO chance the VirtualBox settings were the problem.

I hate M$, but want to be able to test things I do work under Windows.

Thanks for the Jungle Tip,

  Tony.

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