I am unable to successfully complete an install of Visual Studio 2005 with SQL Server 2005 Express on a Virtual PC 2004 image, which seems to be a pretty reasonable expectation. The installation completes successfully all of the way through in a Windows XP Pro SP2 image, but at the end the installation program informs you that SQL Server Express has failed to install, with no other explanation. No setup log files give any information as to why the installation failed. Then I see in the fine print for SQL Server Express downloads that "There is no support in this release for Virtual Server, Virtual PC". (http://download.microsoft.com/download/c/c/6/cc66b572-a402-4c6a-8233-b9c7d05840c7/RequirementsSQLEXP2005.htm)
Is this indeed the case that we essentially cannot run the full VS 2005 installation in Virtual PC? Is there no workaround for this problem?
Express is certainly supported on Virtual PC and Virtual Server. It's hard to say for sure at this late date but I'm going to blame a bug in VS that was fixed by RTM.
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