Not able to install 8.5 on MCS or VMware

[Zaher Juha]

strange startup after booting from 8.5, it's asking for language and many unusual things please have a look on the URL below

https://www.dropbox.com/s/w2ro3onf2yba9mc/20150406_124728.mp4?dl=0

this video been made while using MCS but when i tried to use a VMware player the same steps but without kickstart popup

Usual steps first it will ask for media check then {IP, hostname, DNS, DHCP, firstnode, .... etc} 

any help 

[Zachary Bullough]

Are those the very first questions it asks? No media check or anything?

I don't have a bootable 8.5 image, only 8.0, but I was unable to do anything to replicate that on VMware ESXi. Did you deploy the virtual machine using a cisco-provided template? Are you using an answer file floppy?

[Zaher Juha]

Hi Zachary,

Actually yes first questions, the installation was on MCS not on ESXi

[Brandon Pierce]

And you have used this bootable image before without issues?

[Zaher Juha]

Yes man more than 100 times, for this image i made it bootable but i tested it on VMware workstation and it worked but on this MCS i have no idea why it's like that

[Spooster IT Services]

Hi Zaher,
I see "cannot see kickstart file on CDRom" and "no disk file found" in the video that you had shared.
So i would like to share the Virtualization requirement for CuCM :
CuCM version 8.5 can be virtualized in VMware ESXI versions = 4.0, 4.1, 5.0, 5.1

http://docwiki.cisco.com/wiki/Virtualization_for_Cisco_Unified_Communications_Manager_(CUCM)

To install version 8.5 in VMware you can follow these steps mentioned in the below link :
http://www.i-1.nl/blog/?p=504

and, for the disc image file of CuCM you can store it in any of your drives(that too is shown in the link provided)

Regards,
Spooster

[Zaher Juha]

Hi Spooster,

My friend it's MCS not UCS :)