Guest Chris Barnes Posted March 10, 2008 Share Posted March 10, 2008 I am trying to get VMware Server running on my Vista Enterprise 64bit machine. The install goes along fine until the very end where Windows complains about 5 drivers as being 'unsigned'. In previous versions of Windows I could simply tell the install to go ahead and all would be fine. Apparently the 64bit version of Vista isn't so accommodating. Is there a way I can spoof these drivers so that Vista thinks they are signed (simply turn this off)? And yes, VMWare knows about this problem. They don't seem concerned as they simply say "VMware Server is not supported on Vista. You have to pay for Workstation instead". Assinine as Server is supported on virtually everything else (including WinXP, 2003, every flavor of Linux, etc). -- + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + Chris Barnes AOL IM: CNBarnes chris-barnes@tamu.edu Yahoo IM: chrisnbarnes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest .Joe Posted March 11, 2008 Share Posted March 11, 2008 Chris Barnes;642057 Wrote: <span style="color:blue"> > I am trying to get VMware Server running on my Vista Enterprise 64bit > machine. The install goes along fine until the very end where Windows > complains about 5 drivers as being 'unsigned'. In previous versions of > Windows I could simply tell the install to go ahead and all would be > fine. > > Apparently the 64bit version of Vista isn't so accommodating. > > Is there a way I can spoof these drivers so that Vista thinks they are > signed (simply turn this off)? > > > > And yes, VMWare knows about this problem. They don't seem concerned as > they simply say "VMware Server is not supported on Vista. You have to > pay for Workstation instead". Assinine as Server is supported on > virtually everything else (including WinXP, 2003, every flavor of > Linux, > etc). > > -- > > + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + > Chris Barnes AOL IM: CNBarnes > chris-barnes@xxxxxx Yahoo IM: chrisnbarnes</span> Chris: To the best of my knowledge, all 64 bit versions of Vista require signed drivers. I'm unaware of a way to bypass this system requirement. -- .Joe _[image: http://uswave.net/joetmvx64.png] (\"http://www.vistax64.com/index.php?referrerid=17621\")_ _CPU-Z_Verified (\"http://valid.x86-secret.com/show_oc.php?id=323179\")_ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Kerry Brown Posted March 11, 2008 Share Posted March 11, 2008 Press F8 on startup to get to the safe mode boot menu. One of the options is to allow unsigned drivers. This will get it installed. There is no way to make this permanent. Every time you want to use a program (VMWare Server) that needs an unsigned driver you have to reboot, press F8, and enable this option. -- Kerry Brown Microsoft MVP - Windows Desktop Experience http://www.vistahelp.ca/phpBB2/ "Chris Barnes" <chris-barnes@tamu.edu> wrote in message news:ONlg5jvgIHA.4684@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...<span style="color:blue"> >I am trying to get VMware Server running on my Vista Enterprise 64bit >machine. The install goes along fine until the very end where Windows >complains about 5 drivers as being 'unsigned'. In previous versions of >Windows I could simply tell the install to go ahead and all would be fine. > > Apparently the 64bit version of Vista isn't so accommodating. > > Is there a way I can spoof these drivers so that Vista thinks they are > signed (simply turn this off)? > > > > And yes, VMWare knows about this problem. They don't seem concerned as > they simply say "VMware Server is not supported on Vista. You have to pay > for Workstation instead". Assinine as Server is supported on virtually > everything else (including WinXP, 2003, every flavor of Linux, etc). > > -- > > + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + > Chris Barnes AOL IM: CNBarnes > chris-barnes@tamu.edu Yahoo IM: chrisnbarnes </span> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Chris Barnes Posted March 12, 2008 Share Posted March 12, 2008 Kerry Brown wrote:<span style="color:blue"> > Press F8 on startup to get to the safe mode boot menu. One of the options is > to allow unsigned drivers. This will get it installed. There is no way to > make this permanent. Every time you want to use a program (VMWare Server) > that needs an unsigned driver you have to reboot, press F8, and enable this > option.</span> Just to make sure I understand - doing this is a normal Vista operation with unsigned drivers (not safe mode), right? Are there any other things turned off when in this mode? Since I leave my computer running the vast majority of the time (and only reboot when required by a software install/upgrade), then this might indeed be a viable thing for me to do. -- + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + Chris Barnes AOL IM: CNBarnes chris-barnes@tamu.edu Yahoo IM: chrisnbarnes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Kerry Brown Posted March 13, 2008 Share Posted March 13, 2008 "Chris Barnes" <chris-barnes@tamu.edu> wrote in message news:%23kQe4$GhIHA.1132@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...<span style="color:blue"> > Kerry Brown wrote:<span style="color:green"> >> Press F8 on startup to get to the safe mode boot menu. One of the options >> is to allow unsigned drivers. This will get it installed. There is no way >> to make this permanent. Every time you want to use a program (VMWare >> Server) that needs an unsigned driver you have to reboot, press F8, and >> enable this option.</span> > > Just to make sure I understand - doing this is a normal Vista operation > with unsigned drivers (not safe mode), right? Are there any other things > turned off when in this mode? > > > Since I leave my computer running the vast majority of the time (and only > reboot when required by a software install/upgrade), then this might > indeed be a viable thing for me to do. ></span> That's correct. This is not safe mode. It is regular mode with driver signing turned off. -- Kerry Brown Microsoft MVP - Windows Desktop Experience http://www.vistahelp.ca/phpBB2/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Andrew Davis Posted March 26, 2008 Share Posted March 26, 2008 On Wed, 12 Mar 2008 20:50:06 -0700, Kerry Brown wrote: <span style="color:blue"> > That's correct. This is not safe mode. It is regular mode with driver > signing turned off.</span> Is there a way to force it to stay off? There used to be a command that you could run, but there were updates to vista 64 that was included in SP1, which means that if I don't boot with driver signing disabled, my soundcard does not work. I had not had this problem before, since the command worked pre-SP1 -- Andrew Davis IT Administrator WestGate Church Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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