Windows 98 virtual machine file download

Click 'Create' to confirm your VM settings. VirtualBox will now prompt you to choose a Hard Disk type. Select 'Next' to choose the default configuration. Click 'Create' to finalize your virtual hard disk settings. Although you have now created a virtual machine capable of running Windows 98, its virtual hard drive is currently blank. Once you've obtained one of these, re-launch virtual box and select your Windows 98 VM on the left hand side. Click the 'Settings' icon at the top of the window.

Select the 'Storage' tab. From here you can navigate to the ISO file for Windows Click 'OK' to confirm. Click 'Start' from the main VirtualBox window to activate your virtual machine. Press return to launch Windows 98 setup. Once the Windows 98 setup launches, press 'Enter' to begin installation.

Press 'Enter' once again to have Windows 98 partition your virtual hard drive for you. Use the 'Down' key to choose to use 'large disk support' and then press 'Enter' again to continue. Press 'Enter' once again to restart your VM. Once the VM reboots choose to start from a CD. Next, choose option 1 to enter the 'Setup' process. You will then see a screen showing the Hard Disk being formatted.

Once this is completed, you need to press 'Enter' in order to initialize a routine system check. After the system check is complete, a Windows 98 Setup Box will appear. EMBED for wordpress. Want more? Advanced embedding details, examples, and help! Publication date Topics Windows Been working on a video but I couldn't for the life of me find a bootable windows 98 iso! Your awesome!

So start digging through those old drawers of yours. You can do it in other virtual machine programs like VMware, but the process of configuring the virtual machine software will be a little different. Choose how much RAM you want to expose to your virtual machine.

You could split the difference and safely use MB, which would be more than enough for old Windows 95 applications. VirtualBox will automatically suggest 2. So, if you were using this version of Windows 95, you could theoretically use up to 32 GB of space. Browse to the boot disk. Browse to your Windows 95 ISO file and select it. You can now just double-click the Windows 95 virtual machine in your library to boot it up.

It will boot to a DOS prompt. The key is displayed at the bottom right corner of the virtual machine window. Type the following command at the prompt and press Enter:. This process is very simple. You just need to accept the default options to go through the fdisk process. Press the right Ctrl key to free your mouse first, if necessary. Type Y and press Enter to agree to the format process when prompted.

You can enter whatever you like, or nothing at all. Theoretically, you should just be able to run the Setup program from the disc drive itself to install Windows Instead, we found it much easier to simply copy the files to the C: drive and run the installer from there.

First, figure out which drive letter your disc drive was mounted as. This is displayed when your virtual machine boots up. Run the following command to copy the files from the Windows 95 disc to your C: drive, replacing R: with whatever drive letter corresponds to your virtual disc drive. The graphical Windows 95 setup program will appear. From here on out, you can do everything graphically without messing with the DOS prompt. Once the file is on your harddrive, execute it and thus load the Virtual Machine.

As the file begins execution, answer Yes to the License Agreement question and then once complete, re- boot your PC. Once the PC is re-booted you should be set to go.