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The following steps provide examples of what you may see as your guest operating system recognizes the new virtual hardware. The specific steps may vary, depending on the configuration of the virtual machine.
- Power on the virtual machine and let it update the CMOS.
- Windows detects an Intel 82371EB Power Management Controller. Go to C:WindowsSystem for the necessary file.
- Windows detects lpt.vxd. Go to C:WindowsSystem for the necessary file.
- Windows detects an Intel 82443BX Pentium Processor to PCI bridge. Go to C:WindowsSystem for the necessary file.
- Windows detects an Intel 82371AB/EB PCI Bus Master IDE controller. Go to C:WindowsSystem for the necessary file.
- Windows detects an Intel 82371AB/EB PCI to USB Universal host controller. Go to C:WindowsSystem for the necessary file.
- Windows detects an AMD PCNET Family Ethernet Adapter. Go to C:WindowsSystem for the necessary file.
- Windows asks for the file uhcd.sys. Enter the location C:WindowsSystem32drivers, then click OK.
- Windows asks for the file inetmib1.dll. Enter the location C:Windows, then click OK.
- Windows asks for the file locproxy.exe. Enter the location C:WindowsSystem, then click OK.
- Windows asks for the file ndishlp.sys. Enter the location C:Windows, then click OK.
- Windows asks for the file wsock.vxd. Enter the location C:WindowsSystem, then click OK.
- When you finish installing the AMD Family Ethernet Adapter, restart Windows 98.
- Plug and Play detects multiple devices and restarts Windows 98.
- After the virtual machine restarts, install the new version of VMware Tools. For details, see Installing VMware Tools.
- Shut down Windows and power off the virtual machine.
- Choose File > Upgrade Virtual Hardware.
- A dialog box cautions you that the operation is irreversible and recommends that you back up the virtual disks before proceeding. If you are ready to proceed, click Yes.
- A dialog box displays a message describing what is about to happen. Click OK to continue.
- Power on the virtual machine. When Windows boots, it detects the PCI SVGA adapter. Later, it detects the Vmware SVGA II adapter and installs the driver for it automatically.
- Windows detects PCI Multimedia Audio and offers to install a driver for it. Click Cancel.
- Windows detects an AMD PCNET Family Ethernet adapter. Click Next.
- Select Search for the best driver and click Next.
- Select Specify a location, enter C:WindowsSystem and click Next.
- Select The updated driver (Recommended) AMD PCNET Family Ethernet Adapter (PCI-ISA). Click Next.
- Windows finds the .inf file for the adapter. Click Next.
- Windows asks for the file dhcpsvc.dll. Enter the location C:WindowsSystem, then click OK.
- Windows asks for the file inetmib1.dll. Enter the location C:Windows, then click OK.
- Windows asks for the file locproxy.exe. Enter the location C:WindowsSystem, then click OK.
- Windows asks for the file ndishlp.sys. Enter the location C:Windows, then click OK.
- Windows asks for the file wshtcp.vxd. Enter the location C:WindowsSystem, then click OK.
- A dialog box indicates that Windows has finished installing the software. Click Finish.
- To install the sound adapter, follow the directions in Installing Sound Drivers in Windows 9x and Windows NT Guest Operating Systems.
- If you have serial ports configured in the virtual machine, go to the Windows Device Manager and uninstall all the COM ports listed there.
- Restart the virtual machine.
- Windows detects the COM ports and installs them properly.
I have Win98SE running in VMware Player 6. I enabled the sound options in the VM, set the correct host device, installed the Win98 SoundBlaser PCI driver recommended for VMware, SBPCI_WebDrvsV5_12_01.exe, and the associated devices are listed in Device Manger without any issues, but there's still no 'playback' devices listed in the multimedia control panel. I recorded a fresh boot.log and the sound driver is reported as 'Loaded' and 'Enumerated'. I've uninstalled the driver, reboot, reinstalled, and rebooted again, but still no 'playback' devices and of course no sound. Everything else seems to be running as well as to be expected--not all of VMware's features are available in Win98.
Others have reported that they could get sound working with this version of VMware, but I'm not having any luck. As you can tell, I'm no n00b, but it's been awhile since I've messed around with Win98 and might have overlooked something. Any suggestions?
EDIT:
Ops, forgot to mention that the host OS is Win7 home 64bit.
Others have reported that they could get sound working with this version of VMware, but I'm not having any luck. As you can tell, I'm no n00b, but it's been awhile since I've messed around with Win98 and might have overlooked something. Any suggestions?
EDIT:
Ops, forgot to mention that the host OS is Win7 home 64bit.