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Flying Fox wrote:Go VM, no modern motherboard has Win95 drivers.
bthylafh wrote:Dear god, yes, put it in Microsoft Virtual PC. Should be able to get that for free (in Win7 Pro & up it's part of WinXP Mode). No Win9x drivers for modern hardware at all. Your useful cutoff would probably be early Pentium 4 era or Athlon XP - Win98 drivers /should/ work assuming they're not WDM. Win95 only supports VxD drivers.
LaChupacabra wrote:VMWare workstation 8 does have a Windows 95 option. I have never tried it, so have no idea if it works or not, but it looks fully supported.
churin wrote:LaChupacabra wrote:VMWare workstation 8 does have a Windows 95 option. I have never tried it, so have no idea if it works or not, but it looks fully supported.
What does "A VM has a Win95 option" mean? Does that mean that the Win95 can run regardless of motherboard and its peripheral hardwares on which the host OS for the VM is running?
Flying Fox wrote:churin wrote:LaChupacabra wrote:VMWare workstation 8 does have a Windows 95 option. I have never tried it, so have no idea if it works or not, but it looks fully supported.
What does "A VM has a Win95 option" mean? Does that mean that the Win95 can run regardless of motherboard and its peripheral hardwares on which the host OS for the VM is running?
Virtual Machines usually emulate common hardware that the OS should have drivers for, so it does not see your real physical hardware. Or the VM host program will give you "tools" or "integrations" to install additional drivers inside the VM.
churin wrote:I am sold for VMWare Workstation 8. Here is what I am going to do: Install a spare 250GB SATA HD on my machine with GA-790XTA-UD4, install W7 Ult x64 on the HD, isnstall VMWare Workstation 8 on W7, then install Win95B. I know how to install Win95 onto Win95 era machine and assume I can follow the same procedure to install it on the VM. I appreciate any comment before I proceed.
LaChupacabra wrote:churin wrote:I am sold for VMWare Workstation 8. Here is what I am going to do: Install a spare 250GB SATA HD on my machine with GA-790XTA-UD4, install W7 Ult x64 on the HD, isnstall VMWare Workstation 8 on W7, then install Win95B. I know how to install Win95 onto Win95 era machine and assume I can follow the same procedure to install it on the VM. I appreciate any comment before I proceed.
Grats, VMWare is great. When you say install a spare 250GB hard disk do you mean you already have a disk up and running on your system? And if so, what operating system is installed on it?
Flying Fox wrote:You can try just the VMware Player or VirtualBox if you don't want to pay for Workstation. I would imagine you don't really need all the fancy features that VMware Workstation gives you, right?
churin wrote:I do not want to mess with the W7 system I am using now, so that I add an extra HD to the machine and carry out the experiment on it.
LaChupacabra wrote:churin wrote:I do not want to mess with the W7 system I am using now, so that I add an extra HD to the machine and carry out the experiment on it.
Got it. Just for your future reference (if you decide to start loading more demanding virtual machines in your systems) it is always best to host the virtual machines on a different disk than the host operating system. VM's can get disk intensive, and translating all of that information through the same drive as the host OS as well as the virtualization software can bog down a single disk pretty quick. A lot of times I've found it's faster to buy an external (even USB 2.0) hard drive and install the VM's on that. If you have support for it, pretty much any USB 3.0 external drive will work with this.
l33t-g4m3r wrote:there was a 95C but I've never seen a copy.