When installing B2 on  my ThinkPad T42 using Virtual CD 7 to mount the ISO, following all known advice about 'diskpart'/create partition ... I get to click OK to my locale choices, then get to paste my beta product key in and ZONK! I get a dialog that is entitled 'Windows Setup' with a message stating:

"Setup failed to open the Windows image file."

looking into the logs in the Panther directory created by setup:

setup correctly locates the .WIM file on the mounted ISO image, but fails complaining that it is corrupt.  GLE=0x570

"IBS    SelectImages: Failed to retrieve the WIM file's XML info."

FYI: Virtual CD 7.1.0.2, and Virtual PC 2004 (5.3.582.27)...

This install.wim file is >3GB in size... I am going to purchase Nero ImageDrive to see if that can install B2 correctly.  If so,  looks like I have a bug in VCD 7.

Hope this helps anyone else having a similar problem.

What other ISO mounting tools are being used to mount the ISO image?