I thought the player was for ready to use images and not to create a new image.
In other words you don't have the right VMWare product.
In closing, why not Virtual Box?
Bob
I'm trying to install a Windows 7 Ultimate Virtual PC on VMWare player - however it said some files are missing and then said BOOTMGR is missing. Anyone know how to solve this?

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