Okay so my brother wanted to play some of those old Windows Games that where made for Microsucks Winblows 98. The problem is he uses. And I use that have modern hardware that don’t support M$ Winblows 98. I remember those days of. In fact I still have the orginal CD’s for, and of course. I also had some of the original games that would work on it.
This is good for me since I hate to pirate crap. But how am I going to get to work on an. The answer is obvous but not simple. Yeah you can install pretty much any OS as Guest inside of VirtualBox. However VirtualBox has issues with certain OSes.
VirtualBox requires OSes to run in 32bit True Color Resulution. Windows 98 only runs in 256 High Color Resulutions. Windows 98 will install as Guest inside of VirtualBox with only 256 Color Resolution but it will keep crashing. VirtualBox requires OSes that support. Windows 98 supports this but has trouble reconizing VirtualBox’s Emulated.
Nov 09, 2013 Hi Everyone: I am in the process of wrapping up some loose ends with a friend's older pc. At this point, I am needing Windows 98 drivers for the following. This device driver pack will install drivers for Intel 82540EM Gigabit Ethernet Controller for the Windows 98 operating system. This driver is also compatible with.
Devrocket Photoshop. Because of this if you do default install of Windows 98 it wont use ACPI support. So yes you will be able to install Windows 98 inside of VirtualBox without ACPI support but it will be extremely slow. Windows 98 doesn’t support that is higher then 512MB.
Lastly the VBox Guest Additions don’t work in a FAT Filesystem. And since Windows 9.x Systems use Fat Filesystems you won’t be able to use them. So what we will need to do a stable install of Windows 98 inside of VirtualBox is the following. • Make an of the Windows 98 CD.
I was using Linux so used K3B to do this. • Next we will need to modify the ISO image and add custom Video Drivers to the ISO image. • We will need to download and install the Latest Version of VirtualBox • We will need to make Windows 98 Virtual Machine with Virtual Box (Windows 98 doesn’t support large HDD’s so I made a Dynamically Expanding VM that was 4GB in size) • After the VM has been made we will want to change some of the default settings of it. (Change the sound to be, Change the Network Adapter to PCnet-PCI 2) • Next we will install the modified Windows 98 ISO image onto the VM. • After the installation we will navigate into the C drive of the VM and copy all of the contents of the modified ISO image into a directory in the C Drive. • Next we will reinstall Windows 98 • After that we will install the custom video drivers. • Then We will configure the custom video drivers • We will restart and we should be ready.
So lets get started. We will first gather everything we will need. Lets get our Windows 98 CD and place it on the geek table. And we will fire up our web browser and download the custom video drivers. I would recomend the VBEMP drivers by Bear Windows. You can get them at or you can make your own drivers like I did.
But I will assume your using VBEMP drivers. Here is the direct Download Link for the We will need to have cd burning program. For Linux users I would recomend. If your using Debian based Linux System you can download it and install it by typing sudo apt-get install k3b Or you can download and install it Next we will get the latest version of VirtualBox. You can get it from (Try not to use the OSE versions) Direct download link for VirtualBox for Windows user can be found Direct download link for Apple users can be found If your using Debian based Linux System such as Ubuntu you may want to add the PEUL repo for VirtualBox and install using apt-get. A good how to can be found on virtualbox.org at We now need to get an ISO Image editor.