Investigations - Virtualized Environments

Overview

This page collects some ideas

Topics include

• OS

  • Windows 98 - https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Windows_98

• Hypervisor / Emulator

  • QEMU

  • Virtual Box

  • VMWare Player

  • 86Box

Virtual Box +

Windows 2000

• https://virtual-soft1.nnn2.com/?p=390

  • https://www.realtek.com/ja/component/zoo/category/pc-audio-codecs-ac-97-audio-codecs-software

• Extremely glitchy audio on a Windows 2000 Guest - https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?t=99995

Windows 98 SE

• https://www.sysnettechsolutions.com/en/install-windows-98-virtualbox-windows-10/

  • https://github.com/JHRobotics/patcher9x

  • for Illegal Operation

• https://www.surlofia.com/windows-98-svga-on-virtual-box/

  • https://www.realtek.com/ja/component/zoo/category/pc-audio-codecs-ac-97-audio-codecs-software

• Wave but MIDI issue: https://superuser.com/questions/851131/how-to-play-midi-music-in-virtualbox-windows-98

VMWare Player

• https://www.how2shout.com/how-to/how-to-use-exisitng-vdmk-virtual-hard-disk-in-vmware-player.html

• https://taka973sy.hatenablog.com/entry/2020/03/28/214723

  • https://jp.creative.com/support/downloads/download.asp?Product_ID=420&Product_Name=Creative+Ensoniq+Audio+PCI&OSName=Windows+98&OS=2&DriverType=0&details=1

• Win 98

  • https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-Workstation-Pro/Still-Haven-t-Got-My-Windows-98-VM-Up-And-Running/m-p/2737879/highlight/true#M165409

QEMU

• https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/QEMU/Windows_98

• https://computernewb.com/wiki/QEMU/Guests/Windows_98

• https://wiki.archlinux.jp/index.php/QEMU#QEMU_.E3.81.AE.E3.82.B0.E3.83.A9.E3.83.95.E3.82.A3.E3.82.AB.E3.83.AB.E3.83.95.E3.83.AD.E3.83.B3.E3.83.88.E3.82.A8.E3.83.B3.E3.83.89

• https://www.cty-net.ne.jp/~i-mura-1/pc/part_9x.html

• http://uiuicy.cs.land.to/bootcd/bootcd11.html

  • >

• https://computernewb.com/wiki/Install_QEMU_Tablet_Driver_on_Windows_98

• https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/QEMU/Windows_XP

86BOx

• https://86box.net/

  • https://www.reddit.com/r/windows98/comments/13hofc3/trouble_with_sound_when_playing_games_on_windows/#:~:text=It appears that QEMU does not support,AC97 sound driver (built for windows 95).

  • https://ku.nz/blog/qemugaming.html

Notes

QEMU+Win98

>"\Program Files\qemu\qemu-system-i386.exe" -hda win98.img -cdrom ja_win98_se_oem.iso -boot d -cpu pentium2 -m 128 -vga cirrus

$ qemu-system-x86_64 -cpu pentium2 -hda win98.qcow2 -m 128 -vga cirrus -device sb16 -net nic,model=pcnet -net user -cdrom ja_win98_se_oem.iso -boot d

Archives

• https://archive.org/search?query=creator%3A"Microsoft"

• https://www.claunia.com/qemu/drivers/index.html

• https://archive.org/details/es-1370-driver

Tools

• guest-tools

  • https://ja.linux-console.net/?p=7327

• virt-viewer

  • https://gihyo.jp/admin/serial/01/ubuntu-recipe/0595

References

• https://aobazuku.com/manual/VirtualBox_Win98.html

• https://winraid.level1techs.com/t/windows-98se-on-modern-hardware/34540/2?page=4