MINI-HOWTO: Running games on VMWare

0. Introduction
1. Games That Won't Run
2. Game That Might Run
3. Other Tips

0. Introduction

This is a Mini How-To for running games on VMWare.

1. Games That Won't Run

Games won't run on VMWare if they need one or more of the following:
- Hardware acceleration
- VESA 2.0 or later

2. Games That Might Run

2.1 Games might run if they need one or more of the following:
- VESA 1.x
- DirectX
- OpenGL

2.2 Games might run if they can use software acceleration.

3. Other Tips

3.1. Check www.vmware.com for the latest VMWare updates, FAQs, etc.

3.2. Try the game anyway on a new virtual machine. It might work, perhaps
with a few updates to the Guest OS, regardless of what the official specs
say. You can always delete your virtual machine.

;)

Lee Behrens

<originalmessage date="Sun, 16 Sep 2001 01:50:49 -0500" from="Bob Tanner">

If you can get all the top selling games, like DiabloII, StarCraft,
WarCraft,
AoE, Mech4, etc working under VMWare, please post a howto.

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