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After Windows has installed the virtual hardware and its drivers, you can remove
the failed devices corresponding to the physical hardware using the Device
Manager (Control Panel > System > Device Manager).
Select the device, then click the Remove button. If a device appears in multiple
hardware profiles, you can select the hardware profile or profiles from which to
remove the device.
If you want to enable the virtual machine's sound adapter to work inside the
Windows 9x guest operating system, finish the remaining steps in this section,
then refer to
Configuring Sound on page
Windows NT guests only: After the operating system has finished booting in
the virtual machine, view the event log to see which physical devices have failed
to start properly. You can disable them from the Virtual Hardware profile using
the Device Manager (Control Panel > Devices).
If you want to enable the virtual machine's sound adapter to work inside the
Windows NT guest operating system, finish the remaining steps in this section,
then refer to
Configuring Sound on page
7. Confirm that your virtual devices — specifically, the network adapter — are
working properly.
Windows 95 and Windows 98 guests: If any virtual device is missing, you can
detect it by running Control Panel > Add New Hardware.
8. Install VMware Tools. VMware Tools appears and runs in both hardware
configurations but affects only the virtual machine.
Note: The next time you reboot Windows natively using the Physical Machine
hardware profile, some virtual devices may appear in the device list. You can
disable or remove these virtual devices from the Physical Machine hardware
profile in the same way that you removed physical devices from the virtual
machine hardware profile in step 6, above.
Running a Windows 2000, Windows XP or Windows Server
2003 Virtual Machine from an Existing Multiple-Boot
Installation
If you have installed Windows 2000, Windows XP or Windows Server 2003 on a
computer, then try to run that same installation of the operating system as a VMware
Workstation virtual machine running from a raw disk, the virtual machine may fail with
an error message reporting an inaccessible boot device.
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