I was tasked to install Visual Studio 2010, among other developer's software, on a virtual machine this past week. I spent the last week doing numerous installs with little to no trouble, until I attempted to install Visual Studio 2010. The software before VS 2010 had all been digital media, but VS was a DVD. For some background, I am using a dummy terminal to connect to my host OS which then remotes the to virtual machine. Long story short, Visual Studio 2010 did not rip properly when creating the ISO and the MSDN ISO gave a file invalidation error. In the end, I had to use the Visual Studio 2010 Pro Test web installer to unerringly install the program and afterwards change the product key.
Protip: If you ever lose your Product Key, open up the Setup.sdb file from the original ISO or disk in Notepad or another text editor. Then, search for the [Product Key] section of the document which will have the Product Key copied down. I found this solution at...
http://www.mydigitallife.info/how-to-change-integrated-product-key-in-visual-studio-installer/
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