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Virtual Machine Specifications
Each virtual machine created with VMware Workstation 4 provides a platform that
includes the following devices that your guest operating system can see.
Processor
Chip Set
- Intel 440BX-based motherboard with NS338 SIO chip and 82093AA IOAPIC
BIOS
- PhoenixBIOS 4.0 Release 6 with VESA BIOS
Memory
- Up to 3600MB, depending on host memory
- Maximum of 4GB total available for all virtual machines
Graphics
IDE Drives
- Up to four devices - disks, CD-ROM or DVD-ROM (DVD drives can be used to read data DVD-ROM discs; DVD video is not supported)
- Hard disks can be virtual disks or physical disks
- IDE virtual disks up to 128GB
- CD-ROM can be a physical device or an ISO image file
SCSI Devices
Floppy Drives
- Up to two 1.44MB floppy devices
- Physical drives or floppy image files
Serial (COM) Ports
- Up to four serial (COM) ports
- Output to serial ports, Windows or Linux files, or named pipes
Parallel (LPT) Ports
- Up to two bidirectional parallel (LPT) ports
- Output to parallel ports or host operating system files
USB ports
- Two-port USB 1.1 UHCI controller
- Supports devices including USB printers, scanners, PDAs, hard disk drives, memory card readers and still digital cameras
Keyboard
- 104-key Windows 95/98 enhanced
Mouse and Drawing Tablets
- PS/2 mouse
- Serial tablets supported
Ethernet Card
- Up to three virtual Ethernet cards
- AMD PCnet-PCI II compatible
Sound
- Sound output and input
- Emulates Creative Labs Sound Blaster AudioPCI (MIDI input, game controllers and joysticks not supported)
Virtual Networking
- Nine virtual Ethernet switches (three configured by default for bridged, host-only and NAT networking)
- Virtual networking supports most Ethernet-based protocols, including TCP/IP, NetBEUI, Microsoft Networking, Samba, Novell NetWare and Network File System
- Built-in NAT supports client software using TCP/IP, FTP, DNS, HTTP and Telnet
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