title: Visual Studio 11 Beta and Windows 8 Consumer Preview startup problems on clean install
body: <p>I've installed the following on a VMWare Player virtual machine:</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>Windows 8 Consumer Preview (x86)</li>
  <li>Visual Studio 11 Beta Professional (from ISO image), from MSDN</li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>I haven't installed anything else on the VM. The account I've logged in is a Windows Live account.</p>
  
  <p>After starting Visual Studio, I get the following error (not immediately after startup, but soon after):</p>
  
  <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/EgakM.png" alt="enter image description here"></p>
  
  <p>After that, when I try to create a new project I get the following error message:</p>
  
  <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/QjyjV.png" alt="enter image description here"></p>
  
  <p>Note that I've tried to make it as clean install as possible.
  I have checked the SHA-1 checksums of the ISO-files. They match.
  There is enough memory and HDD space.</p>
  
  <p>UPDATE: It is worth to mention that both the Windows 8 and Visual Studio setups ran fine without any errors.</p>