I usually dual boot my PC with Windows and Linux. For the moment I still heavily use Windows so most of my information is stored on NTFS drives. My linux ext3 partition is only 10 GB wich is more than enough. But I recently installed VMware server on Ubuntu Hardy Heron, and obviously I was forced to save my virtual machines on one of the larger windows partitions. That was o problem for my system, because everything I did I couldn’t PowerOn the virtual machine, with the following error message: “Unable to connect to the MKS: Pipe: Read failed.” After a lot of searching I found this solution. Edit as root the main .vmx file and add this line:

mainMem.useNamedFile=FALSE

Save it and you are ready to use your virtual machine.

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If you found yourself in the position of needing something from the Vista installation disk, you can always raise a Command Prompt Window, and navigate to that location. For example you need the product key so you can copy - paste it rather than typing it by hand.

During the GUI phase of the installation you can press the SHIFT + F10 keys, and you will have yourself a Command Window. From this you can navigate to a text file, or run regedit.exe or any other executable Vista copied to the installation folder on the hard disk.

Thank you Daniel Petri, for this information.

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