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n_demanuele
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Finally able to get past error messages with Fusion 11, but now have Booting issues.....

 

Thanks to the kind people in the community that helped me resolve the initial error messages with Fusion 11 but now have Booting issues:

Here's a screenshot:

Boot_issue.png

Please advise.

Thanks again!

 

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Technogeezer
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That message occurs when there is not bootable media in the system. The EFI firmware in the VM  tries the virtual hard drive first, then the CD/DVD drive, then network devices (which is the PXE message you see here).

What are you trying to boot?

- Paul (Technogeezer)
Editor of the Unofficial Fusion Companion Guides
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n_demanuele
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I was just trying to run the machine.

I was expecting to be prompted to install Windows 10?

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Technogeezer
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@n_demanuele wrote:

I was just trying to run the machine.

I was expecting to be prompted to install Windows 10?


Fusion doesn't prompt you to install an operating system. It just creates a bare machine.  The Fusion documentation states that you must provide the operating system software and its product key. Fusion does not include any operating system or license.

If you did not install Windows 10 on the virtual machine by downloading the WIndows 10 ISO from Microsoft and running it to install Windows like you would for a PC that has a blank hard drive, you don't have an operating system on the VM's hard drive to boot.

 

 

- Paul (Technogeezer)
Editor of the Unofficial Fusion Companion Guides
n_demanuele
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Contributor

Ok.  I'm used to Virtualbox.

So, I'll look up the documentation on how to do that.

Thanks

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