Vm Ware Converter

[plcnoob]

I have 4 old win 95 and win 98 laptops that do not have usb ports or cd drives onlt serial and parrallel ports.

I need to convert these to virtual machines so my question is can i use vmware converter? wil it run? how could i get a file that size off the machine?

[JohnADCO]

No network / nics either? Rough if so.

[plcnoob]

No ethernet ports. will the converter run on win 95 and 98?

[AndreTheGiant]

On what platform do you want to run these VM?

On ESX 3.x they hare not supported.

On VS 4 seems that they will supported.

Andre

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[plcnoob]

I want to use them on vm ware desktop and player on a win xp pro host machine and maybe a vista host.

[AndreTheGiant]

You can try a cold conversion but you must have the enterprise version.

In any case Win95/98 is very simple, you can also copy all file between you source and the VM (for example using Linux Live), then use a bootable floppy to reinstall system (sys a: c:) and reinstall MBR (fdisk /mbr).

Andre

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[Troy_Clavell]

if there are no ethernet ports, no network connectivity, a cold or hot covert is not going to work, period. You need network connectivity for VMware Converter.

I think due to lack of any usable ports on the machines in question, your options are very limited. Your best bet would be to rebuild.