Comments on My Technology Fetish: Installing Windows 95 on a VMware Virtual Machine

what did you use to convert the floppy to an ISO i...

2011-08-01T08:50:45.256-07:00

what did you use to convert the floppy to an ISO image???

I finally get it to work. Never, ever use the orig...

2011-07-24T18:59:09.092-07:00

I finally get it to work. Never, ever use the original Windows 95! It's a piece of crap! Use Windows 95 OSR2.x instead it's more stable!
Tip if you don't want to copy the files, just keep the boot disk in the drive, and when your VM reboots for the first time copy the autoexec.bat, config.sys, cd1.sys, cd2.sys, cd3.sys, cd4.sys and mscdex.exe files to the C drive. That way, Windows will see the CD ROM and won't pop stupid error messages.

I can never, EVER get this to work! I'm using ...

2011-07-05T20:06:17.780-07:00

I can never, EVER get this to work! I'm using VMWare Player (it's the latest version) and an actual Windows 95 CD-ROM that I got for a dollar, and for some reason, it can't find any of the files, constantly tells me at start-up, and will NOT install SVGA or sound. Oh, and the host is Windows 7 x64.

I'm glad this article helps.

2011-01-13T00:23:38.889-08:00

I'm glad this article helps.

I love you! Recently rediscovered my Win95 game ...

2011-01-02T16:19:10.807-08:00

I love you!

Recently rediscovered my Win95 game collection and fancied playing them, but was banging my head against a brick wall trying to install the bloody thing. Your article helped immensely.

I had a problem where the setup could not find cer...

2010-09-19T09:03:12.484-07:00

I had a problem where the setup could not find certain files on the cd, I solved it by copying the entire contents of the windows cd to C:\ right after formating and then ran the setup from there

to ken: im also running window vista..can you gui...

2010-08-28T00:31:10.132-07:00

to ken: im also running window vista..can you guide me please so i can run window95

heyy i've been looking for this topic .. can ...

2010-08-27T22:42:39.034-07:00

heyy i've been looking for this topic ..
can you tell me where to download vmware workstation 6.05, i've search google but only display vmware workstation v6.0 , is it the same??

now im using vmware 7, but didnt work. can you tell me any guideline, can win95 works on vmware 7?

thanks in advance

@Mark, I mean the BIOS information that shows up...

2010-07-13T11:56:09.629-07:00

@Mark,

I mean the BIOS information that shows up briefly when you start the virtual machine.

hmm, everything seems to be connected :/ when you ...

2010-07-07T15:35:23.972-07:00

hmm, everything seems to be connected :/ when you say, "I assigned the drive to an image so it gave me a random drive letter "R:" and I found this by watching the boot information", what exactly do you mean by boot information?

@Mark Make sure your virtual machine is set to us...

2010-07-05T22:53:34.386-07:00

@Mark

Make sure your virtual machine is set to use the host machines CD / DVD drive. You can do that by clicking the small CD Drive icon in the lower right hand corner of the window.

i have followed all your instructions up until the...

2010-07-04T09:12:31.930-07:00

i have followed all your instructions up until the install part where i must type "D:\Win95\SETUP /IS" without the quotes. and my issue is that the drive is not found.. i have also tried to run this with the C, E, and F drives and none seem to be the correct drive. any ideas?

Your article helped a lot, I was finally able to g...

2009-11-14T23:04:34.202-08:00

Your article helped a lot, I was finally able to get Win 95 up and running. However, attempting to install WMWare Tools fails, and I have been unable to get the screen size enough to be usable.

I am running a Vista host and VMWare 6.5

From Ken

I don't know that I ever got the sound drivers...

2009-10-05T10:59:40.008-07:00

I don't know that I ever got the sound drivers to work; I wasn't really concerned with that at the time.

I should try to update my vmx file with those changes to see if it works.

Someone recommended that I try to install a version of Windows with Media Center on a VMware virtual machine. Any suggestions?

This worked for me with Ubuntu as host and Win95 a...

2009-09-13T09:10:05.002-07:00

This worked for me with Ubuntu as host and Win95 as guest: Update your vmx file to contain these sound settings:

# Sound settings
sound.present = "TRUE"
sound.virtualdev = "sb16"
sound.filename = "-1"
sound.autodetect = "TRUE"
sound.startConnected = "TRUE"
sound.deviceNr = "-1"
sound.device = "/dev/dsp"

and within Win95 use this sound driver:

Creative Labs Sound Blaster 16 or AWE-32.

If you wouldn't mind, where exactly did you ge...

2009-08-13T12:45:17.341-07:00

If you wouldn't mind, where exactly did you get the sound drivers? I've been searching for weeks to no avail.
Thanks.