Specifications

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23. Open the Device Manager. It should show that you have
• Standard PCI Graphics Adapter
• VMware SVGA Display Adapter
24. Shut down the Windows 98 virtual machine and your host operating system.
25. Boot natively into Windows 98, then start the Device Manager.
26. Select the VMware SVGA device if listed, then click Remove.
27. Select the Remove from Specific Configuration radio button, then select
Physical Machine from the configuration list.
28. Click OK, then reboot Windows 98 when prompted.
29. Boot into Windows 98 natively and verify the display settings. You should be able
to use the display driver that you installed natively before starting this procedure.
Do Not Use Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows Server
2003 Dynamic Disks as Physical Disks
Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 support a disk type called a
dynamic disk. Dynamic disks use a proprietary Microsoft format for recording partition
information. This format is not publicly documented and thus is not supported for use
in physical disk configurations under GSX Server.
Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 also support the older type of
partition table. Disks that use this type of partition table are called basic disks.
You can use the disk management tool to check the type of disk used on your
Windows 2000 or Windows Server 2003 host and, if it is a dynamic disk, change it to
basic.
Caution: If you change a dynamic disk to a basic disk, you lose all data on the disk.
Use this procedure to convert a dynamic disk to a basic disk.
1. Open the disk management tool.
Start > Settings > Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Computer
Management > Disk Management
2. Delete all logical volumes on the disk. This destroys all data on the disk.
3. Right-click the Disk <n> button and select Revert to Basic Disk.
4. Create the partitions you want on the disk.