I found a win98 iso image and gave this a try with qemu 8.1. It works here just fine - either kvm or tcg mode, either qemu x86_64 or i386. Without any extra options, just this:
qemu-system-i386 -cdrom w98.iso -drive file=w98.img,format=raw It also works fine with a few previous versions of qemu (tried 5.2 and 7.2). Everything tested on debian bookworm (with various versions of qemu debian packages). -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of qemu- devel-ml, which is subscribed to QEMU. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1819289 Title: Windows 95 and Windows 98 will not install or run Status in QEMU: Fix Released Bug description: The last version of QEMU I have been able to run Windows 95 or Windows 98 on was 2.7 or 2.8. Recent versions since then even up to 3.1 will either not install or will not run 95 or 98 at all. I have tried every combination of options like isapc or no isapc, cpu pentium or cpu as 486. Tried different memory configurations, but they just don't work anymore. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/1819289/+subscriptions
