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In the installation process of Windows 2008 R2 as a VM in HyperV, the following error may suddenly come up:
“(Load driver) A required CD/DVD drive device driver is missing. If you have a driver floppy disk, CD, DVD, or USB flash drive, please insert it now.
When working with VMWare Workstation 8, you should always make sure to suspend or shutdown your running virtual machines in VMWare Workstation.
If you reboot your host / client, while VM’s are running, VMWare Workstation 8 then may keep your virtual machines files locked., so no other program or process can access or alter the files.
Since the Windows 8 Consumer Preview has been recently released, you may want to experiment with it in VMWare Workstation.
After you have the done the following things …:
In some scenarios it may be desirable to adjust your DPI settings in Windows XP. For example when a specific application requires a DPI setting of 120 to display correctly.
By default, standard users do not have permissions to change the DPI setting. You need to be an administrative user / administrator to adjust.
In the case that a Windows 2008 R2 node was previously active in another cluster, you may experience a problem when adding that node to the new cluster. The following error could occur:
The computer “servername.domain” is joined to a cluster.