Certainly for gaming, as I have found virtualisation can get a bit iffy with some 3D acceleration. Also virtualization is leaps and bounds faster than physical, even if you are running beyond the recommended hardware specs for the operating system. You will need to know, or have the following to be able to proceed with this. Only begin the process once you have confirmed you have the following. I personally have copies of the Windows 98 Second Edition installation media with me, I have digital copies of these on my personal home server that I use for setting up virtual machines.
Copies of the CD-ROM and bootable floppy disk are widely available online, however for safety I would suggest downloading it from somewhere like Archive. If you have a physical CD-ROM and floppy disk then you can certainly connect the virtual machine to these drives on your host, however you may find the installation process is much slower than using digital copies. For this to work properly you will need to be using a host that can do virtualization. This is enabled via a technology referred to as VT-x.
For many pre-built systems such as those from large manufacturers like Dell, HP or Lenovo VT-x is likely disabled by default and will require enabling.
Check your vendors documentation on how to enable this — however the process between vendors is rather simple and this blog entry at helpdeskgeek. Not all systems can virtualize however — some lower end processors, laptops or tablets may not support virtualization.
Beyond enabling VT-x, you will also need to consider system resources on your host that you will need to allocate to the virtual machine. My personal preference is overkill when dedicating resources to the virtual machine, this means that I need to ensure I can spare MB of RAM and anywhere between 10 to 30GB of hard disk space.
In the world of virtualization you will often hear the terms host and guest. Host may also be referred to as hyper-visor. A host is the system to which the virtualisation software sits on. In this case it is likely your normal desktop PC or laptop. A guest is used to describe any operating system that exists virtually under the host. In this case Windows 98 Second Edition is a guest on your host computer. I write this guide expecting that you will be using the latest Microsoft operating system at the time of writing, Windows However the basics will apply to Windows 7, 8 and 8.
For Linux users VMware do develop a. OK so hopefully you have successfully set up the virtual machine as per the instructions above, and you are sitting at the Microsoft Windows 98 Startup Menu prompt. So hopefully you have successfully installed the operating system files onto your virtual hard disk and the virtual machine is now showing a frankly beautiful Welcome to Windows 98 dialog box.
If you follow this guide I am certain that you will end up with a high quality virtual machine ready for whatever you wish to throw at it.
Of course things may be slightly different depending on the version of install media you choose — if things are greatly different please let me know in the comments as it would be interesting to see how. So to avoid a lot of time loss I highly suggest following the following steps to quickly take a copy of the virtual hard disk file, so that in a case of emergency you can quickly roll back to this fresh copy.
Many people after achieving the above wonder how they can get their software such as old versions of Microsoft Office or their games into their virtual machine. The easiest way is via. ISO files. Sign in. United States English. Ask a question. Quick access. Search related threads. Remove From My Forums. Answered by:. Archived Forums. Sign in to vote. I boot from the CD. Then I go to the win98 folder and start setup, it does look good in the beginning, but it fails after the reboot with the "wait 15 seconds to reboot or click here to reboot now" message window, is sticks at the "Windows 98" boot logo, if you hit a key the animation stops, the virtual machine is stopped and can only be powered off.
Normally it would display "updating configuration files" in the DOS before continuing Windows 98 setup and then asking for name and company and keycode. No Network: Tried. If not, try Virtual PC and tell if you can do it there?
Sunday, November 29, AM. Nothing wrong with that. Windows 7 Virtual PC does not. But that doesn't mean it won't work.
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