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VMware GSX Server Administration Guide
Windows Me Guest
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.
1. Power on the virtual machine.
2. Allow GSX Server to upgrade the virtual hardware.
3. Click OK to dismiss the message “A legacy SVGA driver has been
detected.”
4. Several Plug and Play messages appear. You can safely ignore them.
5. Log on to Windows Me. More Plug and Play messages appear. One refers to the
VMware SVGA driver. You can ignore these messages until you are prompted to
restart the guest operating system.
Click Yes to restart your virtual machine.
6. Log on to Windows Me. The SVGA driver is not working properly.
7. From the Windows Start menu, choose Settings > Control Panel > System >
Device Manager > Display Adapters.
Manually remove the two SVGA drivers.
8. Restart the Windows guest.
A VMware SVGA II adapter is detected and Windows installs it.
Windows notifies you to restart your computer.
Click Yes.
9. The SVGA driver should now be working correctly.
10. Install the new version of VMware Tools. See Installing VMware Tools in the
VMware GSX Server Virtual Machine Guide for details.
Windows 98 Guest
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.
1. Power on the virtual machine.
2. Allow GSX Server to rename the virtual disk with the .vmdk extension.
3. Allow GSX Server to upgrade the virtual hardware.