Windows Vista RC 1

I haven't really added a lot of stuff here, since I'm currently undecided whether my current project will continue on Delphi (or maybe Turbo?) or Lazarus. Meanwhile, I've been trying to install Vista RC 1 in a VMWare virtual machine, and since this caused a lot of problems, and there are so many maybe-solutions out there, I wanted to post the one I found that is really working. Just edit the .vmx file of the virtual machine, and add the following to it:

disable_acceleration = "FALSE"
xinfo.noDGA = "TRUE"
svga.maxWidth = "640"
svga.maxHeight = "480"

After the installation has finished (and important, after you've installed the VMWare Tools!), you should remove those lines.

Other solutions I read about, but didn't work or where too error-prone for me would be:

• Pre-allocate space for the hard disk (didn't work).
• Format the hard disk with NTFS through XP installation CD (didn't work with that, nor Ubuntu partition manager and formatting).
• A lengthy list of keys to press (would manage the invisible interface, but I didn't want to make typos). This is probably what is called The Stevie Wonder Solution on the VMWare forums.
• Upgrading Beta 2 should work, but my Beta 2 partition was too small for the upgrade, so better allocate a few GBs more now.