livecd and bootcd not working with VMware Workstation / ESX-Server

[Thomas Schweikle]

Hi!

After I managed to build ReactOS with the build system I noticed that
live- and bootcd do not work within VMware Workstation 12. I've tried
ESX Server too. Same: livecd just displays a black screen, while
bootcd shows a startup menu. After selecting (or letting timeout) an
item the screen goes black.

Since the downloadable versions of live- and bootcd do have the same
problem I assume this not being a problem of my build, but something
they just do not work together with VMware Workstation/ESX-Server.

-- 
Thomas

[David Quintana (gigaherz)]

Hello, we normally ask that bug reports be opened on our JIRA at
https://jira.reactos.org/

Some months ago I had an issue with VMware, where boot would fail if I
upgraded the VM to hardware version 11 or 12, and I had to set it to
hardware version 10 for it to work correctly. I thoguht that issue was
fixed a while ago, but it may be worth checking.

On 3 March 2016 at 15:20, Thomas Schweikle <tschweikle(a)gmail.com> wrote:

>   Hi!
>
>  After I managed to build ReactOS with the build system I noticed that
>  live- and bootcd do not work within VMware Workstation 12. I've tried
>  ESX Server too. Same: livecd just displays a black screen, while
>  bootcd shows a startup menu. After selecting (or letting timeout) an
>  item the screen goes black.
>
>  Since the downloadable versions of live- and bootcd do have the same
>  problem I assume this not being a problem of my build, but something
>  they just do not work together with VMware Workstation/ESX-Server.
>
>  --
>  Thomas
>
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