This tutorial will allow you to install Windows 95 in a VMware Virtual Machine and its drivers and networks that are not installed by default. If we do this tutorial on Windows 95, it is to allow you to install it in a virtual machine and be able to install old games developed for Windows 95 or for nostalgic ;-).
You can find the Windows 95 VM USB Driver in the table at the bottom of the article. To add a USB device to the virtual machine, first, turn off your VM and open the Virtual Machine Settings window and click Finish after selecting USB Controller.
What is Windows 95 and how to install it?
It was the first release of Windows with the Start menu, taskbar, and typical Windows desktop interface we still use today. Windows 95 won’t work on modern PC hardware, but you can still install it in a virtual machine and relive those glory days.
You must first boot into an MS-DOS environment from a Windows 95 boot disk, which would have been a floppy disk at the time, to get the installation started. If you have an old Windows 95 CD lying around, you can insert it into your PC and create an ISO file from it.
You’ll need two things for this: A Windows 95 ISO file and a Windows 95 boot disk image. Unlike modern operating systems, the Windows 95 installation disc isn’t bootable. You must first boot into an MS-DOS environment from a Windows 95 boot disk, which would have been a floppy disk at the time, to get the installation started.
Windows 95b (also known as Windows 95 OSR2) was only available to OEMs (Original Equipment Manufacturers), so any Windows 95 disc you have lying around will either by the original Windows 95 release (also known as Windows 95 RTM) or the Windows 95a release (also known as Windows 95 OSR1), which came with Service Pack 1 installed.