Digiex Exclusive: Premade Windows 98 Virtual Machine for use with older games​ A virtual machine can be used to run another OS on your current OS (e.g. Run Windows 98 on your Windows XP system).

Where can I find a virtual machine of Windows 98? Not run particularly well in VirtualBox. Windows 98 is not. Get a virtual machine of Windows. Windows 98 (codenamed Memphis) is a graphical operating system by Microsoft. It was released to manufacturing on May 15, 1998 and to retail on June 25, 1998. This should work for all virtual os programs(virtual box,virtual pc,vm ware,ect).It should boot any windows setup requiring disk drive support. Good places to download.vhd images with different operating systems? I'm running virtualbox and have found it. OS/2 and a Windows 98 Live CD VHD.

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. Installation and Setup: Follow each step to complete the installation of your VirtualPC. First download Microsoft Virtual PC, either the 32bit or 64bit version: Also download the Windows 98 Virtual Machine and unpack it anywhere you like: After downloading, run the setup program and install Virtual PC. After installing, run Virtual PC and you should automatically get to the New Virtual Machine Wizard. Keep clicking next until you get to this screen: Click the Add an existing virtual machine button like on the screenshot above.

Click Next and you will be able to select the Virtual Machine you want to add. Click Browse, go to the location in which you unpacked the Windows 98 Virtual Machine and open it. Again, click next and you will get to the following screen: Uncheck the When I click Finish, open Settings button, as it is not necessary for it to be opened. Click Finish and you will end up in the Virtual PC Console: You can now click on the Windows 98 machine and the click the Start button.

Windows 98 will now boot in a window. You can go to Full Screen mode by pressing the right ALT button and ENTER at the same time, or by clicking Action and then clicking Full-Screen Mode if you like. Once Windows 98 has booted you will get this window: Simply click the OK button and you will get to the desktop. As you can see, DOSBox 0.72 is also installed. It is already set up do you'll have no problem trying to mount your drives. For the CD drive you can add your own CD drive, if it doesn't work already, by clicking CD and then click Use Physical Drive D: (or E: or whatever you use as your DVD drive). You can also use an ISO or another CD image, by clicking Capture ISO image.

In the CD menu. To remove the image, click Release ' *name of image* ' in the CD menu. If you want to copy files from your computer to you Virtual Machine, you can simply drag them from any folder onto your Virtual Machine and they will get copied there. Hopefully it all works for you.

If not, be sure to ask questions as we will be happy to help you out! Windows 98 VM Thank you for providing the MS PC Virtual Machine and the Windows 98 'Appliance' AND the excellent step by step instructions. Everything went well and I have it up and running.

I do have a couple of questions if I might. I would like to increase the memory size a bit. How would I go about that? Automatic Chart Update Excel. I also need USB Port access.

I know that was a bit more iffy in 98 than in XP. Can I do this or would I be better off to find an XP 'Appliance'? I also need to have a print but I believe all I need to do for that is to simple install it under the Windows 98 VM, correct? Thanks again for helping me out. I had spend hours looking for something like this.

I need to run an old CAD application that is far to expensive to upgrade. It is running in the Windows 98 VM. To add more memory click the settings button here: You can now add more ram: I believe on Windows Virtual PC you can share USB ports, however that only works on Windows 7 and your processor needs to support Intel Virtualization Technology or AMD-V, my processor doesn’t but if yours does it should be exactly what your after.