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As most of you may or may not know, Cisco currently only provides non-bootable Unified Communications ISO images on CCO for download. These ISOs are listed as being provided for “upgrades” and hence will not boot.
 
The only difference between these non-bootable images and a bootable disc is that the bootable disc includes a boot sector file.   Fortunately, this boot sector file can easily be extracted from a bootable disc and then injected into your non-bootable ISO.  To accomplish this, you will need to use some sort of ISO image software such as UltraISO, MagicISO, PowerISO, etc.  I prefer to use UltraISO for its ease of use.
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Cisco IP Communicator (CIPC) requires a sound card be installed on a PC in order to install or open. Under normal circumstances, this completely makes sense. However, in other circumstances (demos/labs), PCs are actually virtual machines … and do not have sound cards. In these situations, the engineers/trainers/etc are more concerned with dialing than actually hearing audio.

In order to use CIPC in a virtual machine, install Virtual Audio Streaming – a virtual sound card tool from ShiningMorning.com prior to installing CIPC. This software will install virtual audio drivers on your VM which allow CIPC to install and have dialing capabilities. Unfortunately, CIPC will still only allow one instance to run at a time…unlike IP Blue. I have tested this with VMWare ESXi but it may also work with other VMWare products.
 
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