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Copper Contributor

Mar 05, 2019

Can't Install 18346 Server Core on Vmware 6.5

I am running Vmware 6.5 and have previous versions of Windows 2019 installed, configured and running. However on 18346 I try to update the server (18343) through a mounted ISO and it freezes. I get t...

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Copper Contributor

Mar 13, 2019

did you manage to find a solution for this issue?

I have the same error - neither a update to the new version nor a fresh install is working.

Daniel Swartz
Copper Contributor
Mar 13, 2019
Nope. Nothing I tried worked. I had an old Dell server that I put Hyper-V server 2016 on and down loaded the VHDX image. Spun up just fine there. Maybe MS is trying to ditch VMware in favor of Hyper-V. LOL Who knows
- Daniel Swartz
  Copper Contributor
  Mar 19, 2019
  And this is still an issue in 18356!! Hyper-v works fine no VMware. what gives Microsoft???
  - Dave Patrick
    MVP
    Mar 19, 2019
    
    no VMware. what gives Microsoft???
    
    I think you have it turned around. The burden is on vendors like Dell and VMWare do the firmware, driver, and integrations development in order to certify with a given operating system.