Re:VMware mouse driver for Windows 3.x
by x86_64Ubuntu on Saturday November 27, 2021 @01:56PM
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This is a stupid question, but can you run a VMWare Modern instance, and inside of that have a VMWare Ancient instance that runs Windows 95/98? I've never heard of nesting VMs, but I've never looked either.
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Re:VMware mouse driver for Windows 3.x
by sgtnoodle on Saturday November 27, 2021 @02:07PM
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If the VM depends on hardware virtualization support, you can only go one layer deep. If the VM does not depend on hardware support, then sure you should be able to nest multiple layers.
For really old software, you can probably get away with fairly high overhead emulation rather than virtualization, and it would probably be less buggy. I would imagine something like qemu would have no trouble booting up windows 95.
Re:VMware mouse driver for Windows 3.x
by AshamedCaptain on Saturday November 27, 2021 @03:16PM
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> f the VM depends on hardware virtualization support, you can only go one layer deep
Most VM support nesting of hardware virtualization, with glaring exceptions being Windows's HyperV (until W11 apparently) and Xen.
Was there even hardware virtualization support to take advantage of if you're going that old?
Yes, that's exactly what I do.
This way you get the binary translation feature from the older VMware version while you can use the hardware accelerated virtualisation in the outer layer.
Re:VMware mouse driver for Windows 3.x
by mysterydip on Saturday November 27, 2021 @08:53PM
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That's actually how the VMware training courses I participated in were run: each student had their own virtual datacenter made up of multiple VMs.