OEM Win7 upgrade install problem <SOLVED>

[jtsmith73]

I successfully installed the Dell Vista Home Premium 64Bit SP1 (factory vista install for my laptop) on my laptop utilizing the DMI output information and scripting it into virtual box (virtual vista on karmic host). It works without sound (not the issue I'm reporting), but it is able to go online, grab and install updates. I have a Dell upgrade to win7 DVD but the upgrade utility is failing. It performs an obligatory scan of my virtual system and fails to see the 2GB memory I allocated to the virtual machine. The utility will not go any further as 1GB is the apparent minimum to upgrade according to this disk. I find this odd as when I check what the computer thinks it has (right click on my computer and select properties), it sees the 2GB. The other anomalies, maybe related, are the "base layout" driver fails to load in vista and the system recognizes a problem with the virtualbox VMM and wants to reinstall (downloaded a 62+ MB file, "reinstalled" but no change). Any ideas?

Thanks in advance

[jtsmith73]

After work, I'll install the guest additions... perhaps something is required there and all my issues will be resolved at once....

[jtsmith73]

Wow.... this is even better than PFM... Installed the guest add-ins. That was very nice Made things smoother and VMM issue was no more Now about that Dell upgrade assistant... not sure why it still wasn't reporting the RAM, or why the CPU was not reporting a 2.4GHz processor and instead reporting 300MHz one... This problem isn't an issue anymore, bypassed the upgrade assistant DVD and went straight to the win7 install disk (not according to directions) and installed 7. After guest add-ins, it runs pretty well virtualized on 2GB of RAM.

Hope this helps someone with a new laptop from Dell and an OS upgrade.

Cheers

[DKlaus]

My situation too. Will try your maneuvre. (I also had a 300 MHz processor at first, but raising the number of virtual processors solved that, it seems)