Looking for a SVGA driver for Windows 2000 for VMWARE - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: peter-h
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 31, 2024, 08:07:48 am
content: This is not quite "vintage" but probably old enoughGoing back 20 years.I am trying to get a win2k VMWARE VM going, to run a particular VisBas app which stopped working when winXP came along.I installed win2k in the VM by using the "ISO image" option. That all worked fine and it runs, but it sits there at 640x480 only. Win2k needs a "SVGA" driver to go above that.And I can't find one. Apparently VMWARE do a thing called VMWARE tools, installed in the guest OS, and v10 of that or earlier contains that driver. I did find various versions of these tools but they don't seem to install, probably because this VM was created by installing win2k inside it from a DVD. There are many google hits on this exact thing but nothing leads to anything that is real.VMWARE emulates a particular kind of video card, probably Nvidia, so this is a "win2000 svga driver for VMWARE" specifically.I also need networking drivers (again VMWARE will be emulating something) but this is not 100% essential. The video is more important; 640x480 is completely useless in this case.Thank you in advance for anything

author: peter-h
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 31, 2024, 06:07:51 pm
content: Update, in case somebody finds this in 25 years' timeYou have to apply win2000 SP4. This can still be found "out there". Then you have to applywindows2000-kb891861-v2-x86-enu_f118bd276f4211929719961a2e929b620c1a2234.exe (31MB) which is also online.Also according to some posts there iswindows2000-kb891861-v2-x86-express-enu_00c3d36e8f12ad204a1cd7d168f3288f6f47d66a.exebut this very small stub just tries to access some files online on a now-dead M$ URL. But fortunately this update is not needed.Then VMWARE Tools installs fine and you get all the video resolution! It also installs a ton of other drivers.

author: Zoli
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: November 01, 2024, 05:44:34 am
content: Next time when you play with older Windows, pay a visit tohttps://legacyupdate.net/.

author: peter-h
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 01, 2024, 12:20:42 pm
content: Interesting! I already use the Simplix route to update a load of win7-64 machines to the latest "contract customer" M$ updates, which are practically everything that win10/win11 contains in terms of security.I am yet again trying to get networking working between win2k and win10 (the VMware guest and the host, respectively). Nothing seems to work. Of course I have shares set up, and win10 / win7-64 works fine. There are some registry entries in win2k to make it work but so far no luck. VMWARE provides what it calls shared folders and sure enough that works, but the performance is quite poor.

author: HwAoRrDk
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 01, 2024, 03:12:16 pm
content: I seem to recall that there is some registry setting you need to change (or add) in Windows 7 and newer to allow it to talk to file shares on other machines using the older, insecure versions of SMB/CIFS protocol.Wouldn't surprise me if they'd removed that option in Windows 10 and 11, though.

author: Postal2
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: November 01, 2024, 05:49:24 pm
content: Quote from: HwAoRrDk on November 01, 2024, 03:12:16 pmI had to enable SMB 1.0 protocol to share files with "Popcorn Hour A-110 Networked Media Tank (NMT)" and "D-Link ShareCenter DNS-325".QuoteDriver:http://www.win3x.org/win3board/viewtopic.php?t=2462Quote from: peter-h on October 31, 2024, 08:07:48 amNothing to be thankful for.

author: coromonadalix
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 01, 2024, 06:09:11 pm
content: yes msoft in his good wisdom changed smb versions, that caused some turmoil for thoses who had external devices such as nas, or software nas ...

author: peter-h
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 01, 2024, 09:32:41 pm
content: Yes I sorted the video, as per post above, SP4 etc.The LAN issue remains. I did do one registry change which previously worked. But that was winXP to all the later ones. win2000 is just ancient