Run Windows 98 In Virtualbox

 
Run Windows 98 In Virtualbox Rating: 5,0/5 906 votes
  1. Virtualbox Windows 98 Video Driver
  2. Windows 98 Virtualbox Display Driver

In this article, we will examine how to install Microsoft Windows 98 step by step using Oracle VM VirtualBox on Windows PC/Laptop.

A virtual machine can be used to run another OS on your current OS (e.g. Run Windows 98 on your Windows XP system). Attached is Microsoft Virtual PC 2007 and a Windows 98 Virtual Machine premade ready to use! You can use this image to run games which may not work on your modern computer without effecting your current operating system. How to run Windows 98 in a virtual machine. However, you can do this by running Windows 98 as a 'virtual' machine. Virtual machines are designed to mimic a computer as closely as possible while running inside your operating system. You can manage them via a VM Manager application such as VirtualBox. If you name it “Windows 95”, VirtualBox will automatically choose the correct Windows version. Choose how much RAM you want to expose to your virtual machine. VirtualBox recommends 64 MB, while official Microsoft blog The Old New Thing claims that Windows 95 won’t boot if it has more than around 480 MB of memory.

Create the VM and Install Windows 98 SE. Create new VM on Virtualbox Type: Microsoft Windows. Version: Windows 98. Create new fixed size HDD – 2GB (VDI is fine) Install Windows 98SE Boot with your 98SE ISO mounted (you’ll have to find this yourself) Boot with option 2 – Start computer with CD-ROM support.

How to Setup Windows 98 in Oracle Software on Windows PC

The Windows 98 OS was released by Microsofton June 25, 1998, as an update to Windows 95.

It was not actually a full update for Windows 95. It was an update only for critical and critical updates, fixes and new devices. After it, Windows 98 SE (Second Edition) released. Although Win 98 is no longer used today, it is still in the memory of many people.

It is possible to use the Windows 98 system virtually on your physical computer. And therefore, you can only install and use Win 98 with the intention to get to the curiosity.

You can install Windows 98 with virtualization programs such as VMware Workstation and VMware Fusion.

In our previous articles, we implemented a Windows 98 installation with other virtualization programs.

In this article, we will use the Oracle VM VBox virtualization program to perform the Windows 98 installation and finally install the guest additions.

NOTE: You can install Microsoft Windows 98 on Oracle VM VBox 6.0.10 by following the stages in this article.

How to Run Windows 98 in Virtual Machine

Before proceeding to the setup process, download Microsoft Windows 98 ISO file from the link below. Then follow the steps below to it on Windows 10.

Step 1

Run the Oracle VM VirtualBox program and click the New button to create a new virtual machine.

Step 2

Type the virtual pc name and select the operating system version. Then click the Next button to continue.

Step 3

Set the 1 GB (1024) RAM size for the Windows 98 machine and click on the Next button.

Step 4

To create a new virtual hard disk, select Create a virtual hard disk now, then click the Create button.

Step 5

Select the VDI (VirtualBox Disk Image) option for the virtual HDD file type and click the Next button.

Step 6

In virtual machine installations with VirtualBox, we recommend configuring the virtual hard disk as Fixed Size. Because an HDD created with Fixed Size will increase the performance of the virtual machine.

Select the Fixed Size option for the virtual HDD and click Next.

Step 7

Also, storing the virtual hard disk in a different location will increase the performance of the virtual machine. In addition to this, running it on an external SSD Disk will increase the performance of it significantly.

Store the HDD device in a different location of virtual machine and click the Create button after specifying the 2 GB HDD size.

Step 8

Creating virtual hard disk…

Step 9

Now, to add the Windows 98 ISO image to the virtual machine, click the Right button / Settings on the virtual machine.

Step 10

Click Storage and then Empty from the left panel of the Win 98 settings window. Click on the CD / DVD symbol on the right-hand side and click Choose Virtual Optical Disk File.

Step 11

After adding the ISO image to the virtual machine, click the OK button to close the window.

Step 12

Start the Windows 98 virtual machine…

Step 13

From the Windows 98 Startup menu, press Enter on the Boot from CD-ROM.

Step 14

Press the Enter key on the Start Windows 98 Setup from CD-ROM option.

Step 15

Press Enter = Continue on the installation screen.

Step 16

Select Configure unallocated disk space and press Enter.

Step 17

Virtualbox Windows 98 Video Driver

If you want to use a large disk, select Yes, enable large disk support and press Enter.

Step 18

Press Enter to restart the virtual machine.

Step 19

In the same way, continue with the second option.

Step 20

Again, continue with the first option.

Sophos antivirus software. Sophos Home includes artificial intelligence to block advanced viruses, malware, exploits, and ransomware attacks. Free Trial Learn More. CENTRAL MANAGEMENT Synchronized Security against coordinated attacks. Solutions that share threat intelligence and talk to each other, managed through a single, centralized interface, from firewall to endpoint.

Step 21

Wait while the Microsoft Windows 98 C: drive is formatted.

Step 22

To continue with the installation, press Enter as shown below.

Step 23

Click the Continue button to start the installation.

Step 24

In this stage, you can specify the location where you want to install it. Select C:WINDOWS and click Next. Nero 8 free download full version with key filehippo.

Step 25

Select the Typical that is selected by default from the installation options and click the Next button to continue the installation.

Step 26

Select Install the most common componentsand click Next.

Step 27

Type your user name for the virtual machine and click Next.

Step 28

Select the country you live in and click on the Next button.

Step 29

Installation is ready to copy Win98 files. Click Next to continue.

Step 30

Copying your Win98 files to your computer…

Step 31

After copying the files, restart the virtual machine as follows.

Step 32

From the start menu, select Boot from Hard Diskand press Enter.

Step 33

Type your username and continue.

Windows

Step 34

To accept the license agreement, select I accept the Agreementand click Next.

Step 35

Windows 98 has saved all the information and click Finish to continue the next stage.

Step 36

Wait while MS Windows 98 does a hardware scan…

Step 37

Configure your date and time settings and click the Close button to save your settings.

Step 38

Updating system settings…

Step 39

To log in, type your username and click on the OK button.

Step 40

If you do not want to see the Welcome window again, uncheck the Show this screen each time Win 98 startsoption and close the window.

Step 41

Oracle VM VirtualBox Win 98 installation has been successfully completed! You can check the system information in the following window.

How to Install Windows 98 Step by Step ⇒ Video

You can watch the video below to install Windows 98 and subscribe to our YouTube channel to support us.

Final Word

In this article, we have performed the Windows 98 installation using the Oracle VM VBox virtualization program on the Windows 10 operating system. Thanks for following us!

Related Articles

♦ How to Install Windows Millennium in VirtualBox
♦ How to Install Windows XP in VirtualBox
♦ How to Install Windows 7 in VirtualBox
♦ How to Install Windows Vista in VirtualBox
♦ How to Install Windows 10 in VirtualBox

Download Windows 98 ISO for VirtualBox

You can download the Windows 98 ISO operating system used in this article by clicking the following button…

It’s been much longer between my posts than I’d like. We had a re-org at work a little while back and now I’m up for another position that I’m waiting to hear on. It’s like a desktop administrator position but more.

I have a bit of a nostalgia bug and I found my old copy of Windows 95 a while back. I’ve been wanting to install it in a VM so I could play around with it again and remember old times. I made an ISO from it, mounted it, and attempted an installation. I forgot back then that CD’s weren’t bootable and I didn’t still have the boot disk. I do, however, still have my old Win98 boot disk. I think it has corrupted, however. It wouldn’t matter tho, I don’t think, as I only have an external floppy drive and the software back then didn’t support USB!

So I looked on the net and found some boot disk images. I also did a quick google search to see how complicated it was for other folks. There sure are a lot of folks that had a lot of problems! I found it to be farely simple, to be honest. I did get a few tidbits of info that helped me along in my adventure to figure it out. I’ll have several links at the end of the post. But here’s how I did it:

I’m running VirtualBox 4.1.2 r73507 on Windows 7 Ultimate, 64-bit
I have Windows 95 “A” (although the boot disk I found will work for either, I believe)

Boot Disk and Installation CD

  1. If you don’t have the original boot floppy you’ll need to get a copy of the boot disk image from: http://www.allbootdisks.com/
  2. Make an ISO of your Win95 CD and save it somewhere. You can mount this directly in VirtualBox which is nice. If you don’t want to do it that way, you can make another virtual drive and mount it in MagicDisc (another free app)
  3. An alternative is to create a single ISO that includes the boot disk and Win 95. I’ve outlined that below, or you can skip to step 4.
    1. You can also burn both the boot disk and the Win 95 files to the same disc (but this as issues) to make one, bootable CD!
      1. To do this in ImgBurn launch the program and select “Write files/folders to Disk”
      2. On the window that comes up, the left space is where you add the folders and files (don’t forget both, they are separate icons) from the Win 95 CD. The icons are have magnifying glasses over a sheet of paper and one over a folder. I added the files and then each of the folders individually so that they will be at the root of the file structure. Also add the program xcopy!
      1. Click on the “Advanced” tab on the left and then on “Bootable Disc” below that.
      1. Check the box “Make Image Bootable”
      1. Emulation Type: Floppy Disk 1.44MB
      1. Boot Image: add the .img file you downloaded from above.
  4. That should be it for your discs. I highly recommend having two ISO’s and just mounting them in VB, but hopefully the steps above will help you if for some reason you can’t do that

VirtualBox Setup

Windows 98 Virtualbox Display Driver

  1. Started off by creating a new 5GB VDI Hard disk and making it Windows 95
    1. I configured mine to use 512MB of RAM
  2. BEFORE LAUNCHING THE NEW DISK you need to change some configuration.
    1. Right click on the new VDI in your list and go to Settings
    2. Select System on the left and you can configure your RAM size if you didn’t already. Also change the Boot order so that the CD/DVD-ROM is first
    3. Click on the Acceleration tab and UNCHECK “Enable VT-x/AMD-V”
      1. If you don’t do this step, when you go to boot after installation of Win 95 you’ll hang at a black screen.
    4. Click on Storage on the left so we can add the ISO’s we’ll be using.
    5. Click the icon that has a plus sign over a single disk (not a disk stack) to add a CD/DVD Device
      1. Add the Bootable image FIRST so that it is the primary slave (which is what it will try to boot from)
      1. Then add the Win 95 installation iso
    6. Click OK to save the settings
  3. Launch the new VDI!
  4. PAY ATTENTION to the initial boot screen. It’s going to list two drives right above the A:> prompt.
    1. The first drive letter is your Win 95 installation CD (Mine is set to R:).
    2. The boot disc is automatically mounted to the A: drive.
  5. Since this is a brand new VDI there is no partitioned drive. Win95 setup isn’t capable of creating one so you have to do that.
    1. Type format c: at the prompt and hit [enter]. Type Y for yes when it asks if you’re sure and hit [enter]. You can enter anything for the Volume label.
  6. The Win95 setup doesn’t mount your CD drive after you reboot , thus the continued setup for Windows can’t complete because it cant find the Win95 CD. You’ll get a bunch of dll errors. The OS will still boot but it’s a lot of errors. To fix this we need to copy the Win95 CD to the C drive so we can access it later.
    1. From the A:> prompt type xcopy R: C:WIN95 /S
      1. Remember to substitute R: for the drive letter that yours is.
  7. Now switch to your C: drive to run the setup
    1. Type C: and hit [enter]
    2. Type cd win95 and hit [enter]
    3. Type setup and hit [enter]. It will tell you it has to do a scan before it can install, hit [enter] to proceed.
  8. You should now be in the setup wizard for Win 95. I’ll trust you can follow the prompts from here.
  9. When it prompts you to restart after install is a good time to click on “Devices” and unmount your bootable iso. When I restarted after that I got a boot failure, but I just used “Reset” in the Machine menu to reset the box and then it was fine.
  10. It should then proceed with the usual setup and ask you a bit of input.
  11. After another reboot you should be all set to use Windows 95!

Getting on the Internet

I wasn’t sure if this would work but I was easily able to get on the internet. The bad part is most pages are using code that Internet Explorer 4 can’t render. However, if the site still uses just basic HTML you should be able to render it fine.

  1. Please note you’ll have wanted to install the virtual networking driver when you initially installed VirtualBox on your machine.
  2. Launch the “The Internet” icon
  3. Select to connect via your LAN
  4. Use DHCP
  5. Your DNS server will be your router IP
  6. Your Gateway will be your router IP
  7. Save it and reboot like it says

One “old school html” page you can load to try it out is www.bootdisk.com

And that’s it!

I did a lot of trial and error trying to figure out the best way to make the ISO’s and mount. It wasn’t until I got the xcopy idea that it all became beautifully simple. But if I had looked in the first place, I would have seen xcopy was part of the downloaded boot image all along : It was fun though!

Here are the links where I got a few tidbits of info to help me along:

http://www.sevenforums.com/virtualization/10121-installing-windows-95-virtualbox-5.html (this is really the only one that helped me)
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=533611 (sort of, it pointed me in a different direction which made me realize I needed to pursue a different path)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Awo948eU_eE (I tried installing DOS 7.1 first but didn’t want to mess around with mounting my drive)