Note you will have to use the next 2 command every time you start your computer and want to use Qemu+floppy. To make your floppy work you will need to 1st make a place for the floppy to mount to. If for some reason Qemu freezes your desktop try Ctrl+Alt+ BackSpace to log out.įloppy users if you are using Ubuntu 8.10 Floppy drives are no longer supported by default. Pressing Ctrl+Alt will get you out of the box. If the instillation hangs just restart using your choice of the last 2 lines starting with $. $ qemu -localtime -cdrom /dev/cdrom1 -m 256 -boot d win98.img Note the 1 next to the cdrom could be 0 for your other drive. If you have 2 cd/dvd drives you my need to use this. $ qemu -localtime -cdrom /dev/cdrom -m 256 -boot d win98.img you can change to 128 or 64 or 32 if you like. The -m 256 is telling Qemu to use 256Mb of ram. Place your Windows 98 cdrom in your cd/dvd drive. If you have to install Dos and upgrade, use this guide 1st. If you want to install from a boot disk, read down to BOOT DISK. You can go higher than 32 Gig but scandisk will corrupt large disks unless you disable it. Mine is now 64.7Mb less than a gig fully installed but will grow as needed. The win98.img will only take as much space as it needs. 10G limits the size to 10 Gig, feel free to add as many Gigs as you want up to 32 Gigs. f qcow2 will make an expandable virtual Hard-drive. Install Qemu if you do not already have it. $ qemu -cpu pentium3 -hda win98.img -m 256 -soundhw sb16 -localtime -cdrom /dev/cdrom -no-acpi -no-kvm To use Qemu alone you may have to use -no-kvm. Update, In Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic kvm/Qemu has been merged together. That said if you are going to install Win2k or higher I suggest duel booting or Virtualbox. Oddly The Sims 1 ran well with the Universal VESA/VBE Video Display Driver VBE 3.0 I tested in Windows 2000 with Qemu & Kqemu. Gamers unfortunately 3d acceleration is not yet supported on virtual machines. Note this guide will work on most x86 computers. Wine is a compatibility layer for running Windows programs in Linux/Ubuntu, And is my first choice when running Windows only software.ĭuel booting is out of the question with Win98 and my AMD64x2 so its Qemu to the rescue.
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