When I first boot, windows detects a bunch of new hardware and starts installing drivers, and eventually tells me I need to reboot. I am plagued by an inability to get the drivers functional. I am able to boot the VM now, but that is where the fun stops. I used CloneZilla to create an image and then restored that image into a blank VM in Player. Right now I'm downloading VMWare Workstation 15 Pro.I have a windows 98 PC that I need to create a virtual machine from. Is there still a buy-able copy of Windows XP out there? Will Windows XP install to an SSd, or for that matter, to an M.2 SSD? Someone else from another source also suggested to me that running Windows XP might be the middle ground for the game to work between Windows 10 and Windows 95. ^This is why I'm leaning more towards actually building a Windows 95/98 system from old parts. I can assure you it's hideous looking at standard VGA on a big 50 inch 4K monitor !!! That's what you will get if you don't install vmware tools or vbox additions (might be called Oracle virtual box additions these days).' 'Incidentally if installing under VMware or Vbox remember to install the VMWare tools or VBOX additions to the guest after first logon - windows 98 / 95 won't know anything about HDMI / 1080p/ 4k Ultra HD size monitors - that's what the virtual video driver will do - plus better control for sound, mouse, networking and some other enhancements. Find the hardware needed to build a Windows 95/98 machine.

Use VMWare/VBox to try to get Windows 95/98 goingĢ. Which of these two paths do you suggest I pursue more than the other?ġ. That means I either need to get a VM working or that I need to actually build a Windows 95/98 computer. That will run partly, but it won't work for the SETUP.EXE I need to run for the game to work.

I can assure you it's hideous looking at standard VGA on a big 50 inch 4K monitor !!! That's what you will get if you don't install vmware tools or vbox additions (might be called Oracle virtual box additions these days). Incidentally if installing under VMware or Vbox remember to install the VMWare tools or VBOX additions to the guest after first logon - windows 98 / 95 won't know anything about HDMI / 1080p/ 4k Ultra HD size monitors - that's what the virtual video driver will do - plus better control for sound, mouse, networking and some other enhancements. I find HYPER-V best for bog standard VM's where basic server or simple file sharing required - for messing around with eseoteric hard/software then (sorry kari) it's not the best choice. VMWare will also Virtualize Win95 Win98 and even Win3.11 (windows for workgroups) as will VBOX.Īctually I think for adding / manipulating hardware to VM's such as various sorts of USB devices / joysticks etc I think you are better off using VMWare or VBox - or if a Linux user and you want something akin to HYPER-V then try Linux's hypervisors XEN and / or KVM.

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