Installing a Windows 95 Guest on VMware Workstation Player 17.6.4
5Installing a Windows 95 Guest on VMware Workstation Player 17.6.4.
Written Tutorial:
https://github.com/PhilipYip1988/vmware-workstation-installation-guide/tree/main
0:00 Introduction
0:30 Installing Windows Components (Virtual Machine and Windows Hypervisor Platform)
1:00 Downloading and Installing VMware Workstation Player
2:50 Downloading Windows 95 CD, Floppy and Other Files
4:10 Patching the Windows 95 ISO using Patcher 9x
7:22 Creating the Updates ISO
8:40 Configuring Virtual Machine Hardware for Windows 95
9:52 Editing the Virtual Machine Configuration File
10:20 Installing Windows 95
16:50 Backing up the Windows 95 Guest
17:35 Installing the Chipset Driver
19:25 Installing the Unofficial Service Pack
21:20 Installing Internet Explorer 5.5
22:45 Installing VMware Tools and the Standard Video Graphics Adaptor SVGA
25:30 Installing the Audio Driver
26:40 Installing DirectX 8 (or 7)
27:00 Installing Media Player
27:30 Looking up Hardware IDs of Unknown Devices
29:40 Bidirectional Drag and Drop
29:50 Installing Python 2.5.4
32:33 Serial Port Passthrough
Note shared folders does not map as a network drive in Windows 95. Windows 95 has very limited USB support and USB Passthrough was not tested.
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