- #WINDOWS 98 ISO FOR VIRTUALBOX HOW TO#
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(Addendum: my molten_file_transfer project would have worked well here, but Python no longer supports Windows 98. This method also likely works for Windows 95 and ME. You can open it in a free program like 7zip (pictured) to extract the files. While hardware virtualization is very highly recommended, a crashing VM process is still a bug. The trigger seems to be some more or less highly specific instruction sequence in the Win9x boot sector. The symptoms are a bit different but the underlying problem is the same. You can now copy files onto the drive! From now on, you don't need to do any of the previous steps, you can keep this vhd and reuse it.Īfter shutting down the VM, you can find the 100mb vhd file on the hard drive. The crashes with Windows 98 SE and Windows Me are indeed related. If asked to enable large disk support, hit Enter to choose the default, yes. Run `format d:` - assuming the new drive you saw in Explorer was the "D" drive. Now back on the first screen, we have a valid drive (D:).Ĭlose the command line and we can see the new drive in Explorer! I'll note that it is the "D" drive.įrom within the VM, open the command line again. Notice that disk 2 hasn't been assigned a drive letter. Make sure you boot from CD the first time. Once you've done so, you can run the virtual machine. Go in settings select the drive and create a new CD/DVD drive assigning the ISO file related to the Win 98 installation CD.
It starts out looking at drive 1 (C), so first hit `5` to change the drive we are looking at. You need to 'insert the installation CD' by creating a virtual drive with Virtual Box. When you start up the VM, your new hard drive won't show up yet - we need to format it!įrom within the VM, open the command line. Making a 100Mb fixed-size vhd worked for me, I gave it the name "childhd".
#WINDOWS 98 ISO FOR VIRTUALBOX DOWNLOAD#
Download Windows 98 ISO for VirtualBox (1st & 2nd Edition).
#WINDOWS 98 ISO FOR VIRTUALBOX INSTALL#
Right-click on the Controller: IDE and select `Add Hard Disk`. Full install of Windows 98SE for VirtualBox GB VDI fileGraphics drivers installedAdditional. In Virtual Box, go into Settings, then into Storage.
#WINDOWS 98 ISO FOR VIRTUALBOX HOW TO#
But how to transfer files out of the VM? I do it by using a second, smaller virtual hard drive (vhd file)!Ĭreate a VHD file. iso file and telling VirtualBox to mount it, simulating a CD-ROM. I can transfer files into the VM by creating a. But I don't want to enable SMB - Windows 98 does not support the safer SMBv2, and SMBv1 has security vulnerabilities that led to ransomware like WannaCry. It looks like people solve this by setting up a SMB share in the guest machine and connecting to it in the host. VirtualBox's "guest additions" do not support Windows 98, so you can't drag/drop files or set up a shared folder. In VirtualBox, when I made a Windows 98 virtual machine, it took me a bit of thinking to know how to quickly transfer files in and out of the VM.