If you don’t do this right, Windows Home Server Installation will fail with error message as “Hard drive capable of hosting Windows Home Server was not found” or “Not Enough Space”.Seems like the older version of Windows Home Sever needed IDE.
Its very simple to follow except one or two place where you need to careful. This will launch a popup which is like a Wizard for creating the machine.Click on the Create Virtual Machine link on the third section.I am asking you do this right here because when you create a virtual machine, you will need this.Ĭreate a Virtual Machine in VMware Server Like I said, VMware Server looks into Datastore for everything, Copy your Windows Home Server ISO file to the datastore path. Now in case the capacity and free space is set as zero, double check if the path which is set there exists but even if it does not get resolved create a new data store and add a path. DataStore virtually holds everything and is like a folder for VMWare Server to location your virtual hard disk, ISO files etc.īy default there is a data store available under the name of Standard. Now the first check you should make is on DataStore. Third Sections has quick menus like creating virtual machine, data store etc.You should be seeing details like General, Data Stores, Networks. Second is Details of the Host which in this case is the machine where I have installed.Inventory : It is a list of all hosts and the VM installed in them.What you will see here is very different from VMware Workstation so don’t be surprised if this is your first time. Next is the login screen where you need to enter the same username password which is used for logged in Windows user.In case your browser gives some certification error, accept and move on.Click on the Shortcut and Web Server Ui will be launched on your default browser.During the installation you will seeĪ shortcut will be installed on your desktop and Once the installation is complete a reboot is must.
Once it completes you will need to enter the key which you must have received after completing registration for the VMWare Server product. In case it says it’s not, you need to first check if your hardware supports Hardware Assisted Virtualization and if yes, check your bios if it is enabled.ĭouble click the installer and launch the setup. Once you download the detection Tool, Run it and if your machine supports, Hardware Assisted Virtualization you will get a popup message which says that the computer is configured for hardware assisted virtualization. 160 Gb space is required by the Windows Home Server.Ĭheck for Hardware Assisted Virtualization :
In this tutorial we will learn how to install Windows Home Sever on WMware Server which is a web based Virtualization tool.