Setting up the svga video driver for use with a windows 98 guest operating system booted from a raw disk this section explains how to configure the video driver in a windows 98 raw disk installation using vmware workstation.. Drivers for vmware virtual graphics drivers. the xorg graphics driver for the vmware virtual graphics- and mouse devices consist of. xf86-video-vmware - the video driver.. The wddm driver, which is included with vmware tools, only works with hardware version (hw) 7 and above. the wddm driver does not work with older hardware versions and does not run if installed..
To use the graphics card or gpu hardware, download the appropriate vmware graphics driver from the vendor web site. go to the nvidia web site for information about the vmware graphics driver for your nvidia graphics card.. Device drivers smooth mouse operations, make vmware features such as folder sharing available, and improve sound, graphics, and networking performance. if you do a custom vmware tools installation or reinstallation, you can choose which drivers to install.. Troubleshooting svga drivers installed with vmware tools on windows 7 and windows 2008 running on esxi/esx 4.x/5.x (1011709) last updated: 3/12/2015 categories: troubleshooting request a product feature.