Alexey Eremenko wrote: > The problem is that VirtualBox virtualizes VirtualGraphics card, for > which there is no drivers from Win95/98. I have feature requested to > provide such a drivers, but Innotek are not interested. There are > stability issues as well. > In short current version of VirtualBox has very bad support of Win95/98. > > I would recommend you using another emulator, such as Qemu (with a > separate GUI such as QtEmu or virt-manager), because Qemu is optimized > for Win95/98. It can run with 98 as both Host and Guest, but it's a > LOT less user-friendly than VirtualBox, so be ready to start reading > lots of Qemu documentation. > > Alternatively: there are other virtualizers in existence: VirtualPC > and VMware. Both have good support of Win95/98 as guest. It is *very > disaapointing* that VirtualBox has not, as I really need this feature, > just like you. >
As I am the maintainer of the Linux driver bcm43xx for Broadcom wireless chips, it is not possible for me to use a "tainted" kernel, which prevents any binary-only kernel modules. AFAIK, that rules out any other virtualizer except the lowest level of Qemu, but it has really poor performance. My uses of the Windows guest are so infrequent that it wouldn't be worth while adding an XP quest, and I'll live with the 16-color problem. If I have any spare time, I'll look into adding new drivers. Thanks for the explanation. Larry _______________________________________________ vbox-users mailing list [email protected] http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users
