VMware (Virtual Machine, Windows 2000 Installations)

Installing Windows 2000

Be sure to read“General Installation Instructions for All VMware Products” on page 14 and this section before installing this operating system.

You can install a supported version of Windows 2000 in a virtual machine using the corresponding Windows
2000 distribution CD. If your VMware product supports it, you can also install from a PXE server.

Fulfill these prerequisites before installing Windows 2000:.

 Create& configure a new virtualmachine.Consider these support and configuration issues for Windows  
2000:

 ESX Server, VirtualCenter, or vCenter 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
http://www.lsi.com/cm/DownloadSearch.do?locale=EN and download the LSI20320‐R SCSI adapter
driver for your guest operating system.

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 an overview of VMware Tools and for a listing of the manuals that contain instructions for installing VMware Tools in your guest, see knowledge base article 340 at http://kb.vmware.com/kb/340.

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