Installing Windows 8 Consumer Preview returns an error

Question

I always get "A DVD driver your PC needs is missing." Then I click "Ok" and "No device drivers were found." pops up.

This occurs right after I select my language and keyboard. How do I fix it?

I'm installing the 32-bit consumer preview on VMware player on a 32-bit Windows 7.

Solution

VMware says it could be a corrupted ISO file: http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1032711

Comments

[Tamara Wijsman]

Try to look for a guide to get a Windows 8 Preview working on VMware, because there are known problems with trying to get Windows 8 working virtually. It might be that this is only specific to the Consumer Preview, but it's worth looking around none-the-less.

[Thalys]

works perfectly for me, same setup, using an iso

[Nick Josevski]

I wonder if it's as simple as it's just looking for a DVD rom due to some hard coded expectation, do you not have any DVD roms? If not install a virtual device tool like Daemon tools on the host OS...

[G Koe]

Unless you are married to VMWare player, try virtualbox. there is a great guide for the dev preview and consumer preview HERE

[climenole]

Which VMware version? Some tech blogs report that version 3.14 cannot be used to install and run W8... (but the articles are from last september and the things change fast...). Virtual Box is a good alternative imho.