![]() Sb16: warning: command 0xfa,0 is not truly understood yet Main-loop: WARNING: I/O thread spun for 1000 iterations General flakiness, lockups, random boot failures.Only one of them was able to function without the sound Softsynths cause such a high CPU load that everything else in the VMįreezes.Scandisk runs after everyīoot, followed by the black screen of death and having to restart in The display now enters a trashed state whenever I try to open a DOS box.Sound was working,īut looping and breaking up with high CPU load. After lots of fighting I made it to the desktop.At one point it blue screened and locked up.Then accepting all of the default responses (hitting Enter a lot) somehow Every attempt to boot from the HDD locked up with a black screen.Īfter restarting, the startup menu with safe mode or step-by-stepĬonfirmation would come up.Booted the install CD, allowed setup to fdisk and format to its preference.Qemu-system-i386 $ -cdrom W98SE.iso -boot dĭespite KVM, installation ran much more slowly than it did with QEMU_SHARED_OPTS="-enable-kvm -m 384M -sandbox on -machine pc -cpu pentium2 -display gtk -vga std -no-hpet -no-acpi -soundhw sb16,pcspk -drive index=0,file=rawhdd.img,format=raw,media=disk,readonly=off" configure -prefix=/usr/local/qemu-2.6.0 -audio-drv-list=alsa,sdl -enable-seccomp KVM have not been maintained, assuming that they ever worked at all. Unfortunately, support for W98SE in QEMU and Hardware-assisted virtualization and emulates hardware of the appropriate Linux User #330250 for making me aware of a relevant answer on Stackoverflow. Section don't mention that it works with raw image files. Even theĬreaterawvmdk examples in the Advanced Storage The VBox manualĭoes not indicate support for raw format disk image files. This function is not properly documented. Like disk geometry, UUID, and the path to the raw image) can then be added as ![]() The resulting vmdk file (a small text file with fields that note things Internalcommands createrawvmdk -filename W98SE.vmdk -rawdisk Then, generate a vmdk file as follows: VBoxManage Hidden support for raw image filesįirst, create the raw image file and put a partition table in it. The serious failures that occurred during installation show that vbox'sĮmulation of vintage hardware has problems, but it is an order of magnitudeīetter than QEMU, and the resulting VM was usable. Virtualization is allegedly "active." Performance is good.
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