Vista RC 1 fails to install on VMware and Virtual PC

I stumbled onto Windows Vista Release Candidate (RC1) installation trouble today with both VMware Workstation 5.5.2 and Virtual PC 2004 SP1.

Firstly, VMware would not let me even start the installation, since the virtual machine froze before the installer started. A fellow MVP pointed out that this was an issue with VMware Workstation, and could be fixed by putting the following two lines in the .VMX file:

svga.maxWidth = "640"
svga.maxHeight = "480"

Of course, this option is less than optimal, since it limits the screen resolution to plain ol' VGA level (640x480x16). Not good, so I ended up installing Virtual PC 2004 SP1. But, even though I tried downloading the ISO images for Vista twice from MSDN, I always ran into the error 0x80070570: the file "D:\Sources\install.wim" is corrupted. But according to a TechNet forum post (or rather, posts), I can judge I'm not the only one with the problem. Of well, looks like I'm gonna miss RC1 testing altogether.