#Virtualbox windows 98 install

However for nostalgiaвЂ™s sake, if thereвЂ™s something you want to play around with to re-live just how awesome Windows 98 was (?), then itвЂ™s definitely doable in VirtualBox, but not a great experience. In 1998, hard disk drives peaked at 15 GB capacity. Select VDI (VirtualBox Disk Image) and Dynamically allocated over the following couple of options before choosing the size of the hard disk. Given that VirtualBox does not have any supported/provided Guest Additions for Windows 98 (or 95 for that matter), running under VirtualBox is incredibly slow and sluggish. Again as weвЂ™ve chosen Windows 98, VirtualBox has suggested the recommended size of the hard disk to be 2 GB. An interesting IE feature that was discontinued from Vista onwards. I am looking to do the same, and found a microsoft tool which does the p2v to a VHD file, which I believe is natively recognized by VirtualBox and can be. I remember using this ' active desktop'В feature in 98, where you could have web content pinned to your desktop. вЂњWindows 98 supports new, cutting edge technologiesвЂќ вЂ¦ IвЂ™m glad 98 made my computer вЂњmore entertaining.вЂќ I booted the VM from a floppy disk image (the same I downloaded for my 95 installation attempt, from here), partitioned and formatted the virtual disk, and then ran 'setup' from the CD: ThereвЂ™s a great post here that describes VM specific settings compatible for installing 98 вЂ“ I went with 1GB RAM and a virtual 10GB disk and followed the other suggested settings. Moving on then, next up, installing Windows 98. More likely, the issue is related to VT-x virtualizationВ (I canвЂ™t find the option to turn off VT-x support on my VirtualBox install), or other posts suggest this is most likely to do with host CPUs faster than 2.1GHz, and my Mac Pro has dual 2.8 Xeons. What on earth Windows 98 was doing back then initializing iOS devices is interesting, but beside the point.В This error is described in this KB article, but IвЂ™m not sure updating the BIOS in my Quantum hard disk is really applicable in this case.

#Virtualbox windows 98 install

My attempt to install Windows 95 on VirtualboxВ on my Mac Pro didnвЂ™t turn out too well, as by the time the installation completed it refused to boot, with this error: 'While initializing device IOS.