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Windows 95 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. Log on to Windows 95.
You see a number of Plug and Play messages. Click Cancel for those listing the Standard host CPU bridge, PCI bridge and PCI Universal bus devices.
5. The SVGA driver is not working properly.
6. From the Windows Start menu, choose Settings > Control Panel > System > Device Manager > Display Adapters. Manually remove the SVGA driver.
7. Restart the Windows guest.
8. Again, you see a number of Plug and Play messages. Click Cancel for those listing the Standard host CPU bridge, PCI bridge and PCI Universal bus devices.
9. Windows detects and installs the VMware SVGA II adapter.
10. Restart Windows 95.
11. Once again, you see a number of Plug and Play messages. Again, click Cancel for those listing the Standard host CPU bridge, PCI bridge and PCI Universal bus devices.
12. The SVGA driver should now be working correctly.
13. Install the new version of VMware Tools. See Installing VMware Tools for details.


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