Announcing the VMware SVGA Device Developer Kit
Over the weekend, I finally had time to release another work-related open source project: the VMware SVGA Device Developer Kit. It’s a set of documentation and example code for the virtual graphics card that’s present in all VMware virtual machines. The examples run on the (virtual) bare metal, so it’s a really easy way to experiment with low-level graphics driver programming.
Excellent! Now I can hack a vid driver for Windows 3.1… assuming there isn’t one on the Tools CD already. Hmmm.
There is indeed already a VMware video driver for Windows 3.1 (though it hasn’t been updated in years, I’m not sure what else you’d add to it).
Where might I be able to find this driver?
Hmm, I sure thought there was an official driver for Win 3.1, but I guess I’m remembering wrong. The oldest one seems to be for Win 9x. That was all before my time at VMware
Looks like there’s an unofficial driver, though:
http://chitchat.at.infoseek.co.jp/vmware/misc.html
(I haven’t tried it myself. YMMV, etc.)