Windows 2000 Installation Guidelines

Support

This guest operating system is supported on the following VMware products:

General Installation Notes

You can install a supported version of Windows 2000 in a virtual machine using the corresponding Windows 2000 distribution CD.

ESX Server: If you are using the virtual LSI Logic SCSI adapter, you must download the driver from the download center at the LSI Logic Web site. Go to www.lsilogic.com/support/ and look for the LSI20320 SCSI adapter driver for your guest operating system. For details on installing this driver, see the VMware ESX Server Administration Guide.

Before installing the operating system, be sure that you have already created and configured a new virtual machine.

Windows 2000 Installation Steps

  1. Insert the Windows 2000 CD in the CD-ROM drive.
  2. Power on the virtual machine to start installing Windows 2000.
  3. Follow the installation steps as you would for a physical machine.

VMware Tools

Be sure to install VMware Tools in your guest operating system. For details, see the manual for your VMware product.

After you install VMware Tools, you need to change your Windows 2000 screen area to be greater than 640x480 pixels; if you do not change it, Windows 2000 uses the standard VGA driver, and your performance will suffer.

Known Issues

Guest Screen Saver

On a Linux host with an XFree86 3.x X server, it is best not to run a screen saver in the guest operating system. Guest screen savers that demand a lot of processing power can cause the X server on the host to freeze.

Service Pack 3

A Windows 2000 guest with Service Pack 3 installed may fail to boot. A dialog box appears, saying "The Logon User Interface DLL msgina.dll failed to load."

For a workaround to this problem, see the VMware knowledge base: www.vmware.com/support/kb/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=907.

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