VMware Drivers ... get them for free

[Incroyable HULK]

Since a lot of us are using VMware workstation to test their unattended installation, I am providing the necessary drivers for the "virtual" hardware.

The benefit is that you can test the driver installation process and your virtual machine is fully functionnal upon completion.

Just download, extract to your $OEM$\$1\Drivers folder and add the following to your winnt.sif

[Unattended]
OemPnPDriversPath="Drivers\VMware\hgfs\win2k;Drivers\VMware\memctl;Drivers\VMware\mouse;
Drivers\VMware\scsi;Drivers\VMware\video;Drivers\VMware\vmxnet"

EDIT: I had to break the code in 2 lines so make sure there is no space or line break in your code

You can also put all the drivers files in the VMware directory and just add this to winnt.sif:

[Unattended]
OemPnPDriversPath="Drivers\VMware"

I must thank prathapml for giving me this tip!

VMware.exe

[bucketbuster]

Great, thanks alot Incroyable HULK B)

[MCT]

yep, what i do, is just make 1 single directory of vmware, & extract all drivers there, just to kind of keep everything together

[Incroyable HULK]

It seems possible to get the drivers for MS Virtual PC 2004 as well but I'm not sure which files are required. They are located here:

Program Files\Microsoft Virtual PC\Virtual Machine Additions\VMAdditions.iso