The floppy was A: and the target drive for the system was C: as expected.Ĭtrl-Alt is used to switch back from the guest system to the host system. Interesting that WP also assigned the letter R: to the optical drive. Fortunately, this was pretty easy to add.Īs with VirtualBox, WP handles both optical and floppy devices well. I soon realised that I have access to an optical device, but no floppy device. Nice! No point downloading and installing VMware Tools at this stage though as the C: drive has yet to be prepared. Unlike VirtualBox, which had no Guest Additions for Windows 95, WP does have VMware tools for Windows 95. I also opted for a single file rather than splitting the virtual disk into multiple files, which is the default for WP.įiring up the VM and I’m presented with quite a lot of information. A notable difference is that WP wants to create an 8GB container for Windows 95, while VirtualBox creates a 2GB container by default. Refer here for more information.Ĭreating the VM to house Windows 95 was straightforward. Unless you’re planning on licensing several VMs, cloning is of limited use. If you don’t do this, and you corrupt your VM, it’s going to be problematic to use the same licence to recreate the VM. As soon as you’ve activated a VM, it’s really important to take a copy of it and store it away for safe-keeping. Cloning I found not as useful as a backup for later versions of Windows (Windows Vista and above) as it changes the Universally Unique Identifier (UUID) on which licence activation is built. It saved a lot of time and effort in not having to build the VM again from the ground up. If I stuffed up, I could roll back to the snapshot and try again. If I was happy with the state of a VM, I’d snapshot it and continue experimenting. I found snapshots particularly invaluable. Cloning and snapshots are included with VirtualBox. A bit of digging around and I realise I’m not able to clone a machine in WP. Interesting… I need to upgrade to WP Pro to do snapshots. I cranked up WP and was presented with the following screen. Anyway, after further research, I figured out that what I needed was Workstation Player (WP). …and the downloads page from the side menu… It’s pretty obvious what virtualisation software I need to acquire. Here’s a screenshot of the home page for VirtualBox. Turns out, a number of products are covered under the VMware umbrella. I had assumed VMware was the virtualisation software. The first challenge for me was to figure out exactly what constituted VMware virtualisation software.
In this post, I’ll do the same thing, but use VMware instead of VirtualBox. In an earlier post, I used VirtualBox to create a Windows 95 virtual machine. This is the second in a multipart series on virtualisation software.
0 kommentar(er)
