Windows 2000 Vmware Tools
Skyy Mansour
I have found lots of guides on how to create a virtual image of a win xp or newer windows, but it eludes me how I can do that with win 2000 server. Anyone have any good input here? I was hoping to end up using virtualbox.
If you're running Windows 98 in VMWare (as your subject line indicates) then Windows 98 can only see the hardware that's presented to it by the virtual machine, not your actual, physical hardware. Check the device manager and see for yourself.
One of the main features of virtualization is to protect your hardware from viruses and malware. The more actual hardware you give your VM access to, the more damage a rogue program can do to your system. That's why hardware is emulated in a VM instead of using your actual hardware. If you get infected, all you have to do is reboot your VM and the malware is gone because it can't create a permanent hiding place for itself inside a VM.
any of the mainstream hypervisors are only good for running old apps with the guest OS at best... none of them were ever designed for gaming in mind
also, because VMware no longer officially supports anything over than Win2k, there are no new VMware Tools for Win9x... the last version of VMware tools for it is version 7.7.0 build 378486, which means the last version of VMware to officially support this is with "hardware version 7", which is what VMware Player 3.x, VMware Workstation 7.x, and VMware ESX/ESXi 4.x uses... in otherwords, no further development of VMware Tools (or the drivers that are part of it) will be made, this means there's no hope of any future driver that will bring 3D support, unless someone made something that will work
So you say that vmware dont use the original video card of the computer, it uses only an emulated one. Okay. All the settings I have in vmware in the display section are: "accelerate 3d" and "use host setting for monitor" or "specify monitor numbers".
If I want to put an old 3dfx or maxtor card in it, what should I do?
Vmware doesn't use your host graphics card directly it uses the additions installing in the guest operating system that then talk to the virtualization software and then run the graphics on your host.
at this time, VMware Workstation/Player does not support VT-d, so that's a shame because it would be nice to be able to take advantage of that... I had to disable it because VMware Player would then run in software virtualization instead of hardware ?
you need to understand the concept that virtual is virtual... everything you are touching is just like a whole separate computer, with its own video card, own sound card, own floppy drive, etc... there are limitations to what you can and cannot directly attach to the guest (the virtual computer)... so any fancy video card won't really help (and you will only need a shaders 2.0 3D capable card if you are installing Vista or 7 and wanting Aero), but a fast hard drive or lots of RAM will, depending on what OS you're running and how many guests at the same time
as far as running older Windows on VMware, I recommend running VMware Player 3.1.5 or VMware Workstation 7.1.5... VMware Player 4.x and VMware Workstation 8.x dropped official support for Win9x (but it will still work), requires a 64-bit CPU and is a little buggy
right...
the only reason to run workstation is if you want to use snapshots (great for testing software and configuration changes)... workstation also has a better management interface for multiple guests, and it also adds a toolbar for you to easily suspend/start/turn off/take snap shots of your guests... player has no toolbar and no snapshot feature, nor are there little cool extras like the ability to auto update VMware Tools as new versions become available, nor quick/direct ability to capture screenshots then save to the host, for example
The one thing I can't stand about VMware is that every time there's an update from 4.0.3 to 4.0.4, say, you're supposed to
Uninstall your existing version
Restart your computer
Install the new version
and restart your computer again.
Actually, the other thing is that their website has an obnoxious sign-in process, but at least the updates can be downloaded directly from the application now. Except you're not given any handy way to save the download for next time. ?
There seems to be a mouse input error in Windows 2000 (left mouse click to fire keeps firing) in a VM not sure if a Vmware tools issue or an SDL2 issue with blackwingcat extended core and the usual issue with relative\absolute mouse control issues with VMs.
ah yeah if not full dos port at least a win32 exe compatible even on win95. also this game has crazy requirements cant be correct. recomended requirements 2gb ram 1gb vram oh come on even quake 4 wasnt that high.
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