Vista won't boot when emulating

[pknz]

Just installed Windows Vista the third HDD in my Mac Pro, boots up fine, however I can't seem to get it to work through Parallels Desktop or VMWare Fusion (using the bootcamp install).


Both emulators start Vista and then I get Windows Boot Manager telling me Windows failed to start.

"Windows failed to load because the firmware (BIOS) is not ACPI compatible"

 

[brasscat]

Which version of Vista are you using? Certain versions aren't allowed to be emulated (maybe that's the issue?)...

 

[pknz]

Its Vista Ultimate.

I think what happened was the Virtual Machine I created in Parallels was for XP not Vista. I have created a new one (for Vista) which seems to be working.

Fusion is still not working, different error message:

royal.sys An was made to write to read-only memory.

 

[MRU]

Yeah my Vista on bootcamp, wont open if I try to open the bootcamp partition in Parallels. I just get the same error.