On Sunday 24 February 2008 22:52:05 Alexey Eremenko wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 10:41 PM, Dexter Filmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
wrote:
> > Need a Win98 VM for Corel Photo Paint 4 (damn old but I'm so used to
> > it...). Used to use VMware but I like the Seamless Mode so much I thought
> > I install 98 on VBox 1.5.6.
> >  Didn't really go well. Crashes a lot, awfully slow, only 640x480 and no
> >  Additions, so I guess Seamless won't work anyway?
> >  Is support planned for future releases?
> >
> >  (And btw: if someone knows hot to get CPP4 running in Wine, Cedega, CX
> > Office or whatever, just lemme know.)
>
> Hi Dex !
>
> You understand it well. unfortunately VirtualBox is not optimized for
> Win98. Me too, have a lot of Win98 applications, that do not work on
> XP, so I would like to see full support for Win98 guests.
>
> But Innotek is not interested in it. :(

Qemu runs Win98 OK. It is slow there too but Qemu presents Win98 with known, 
supported hardware. I have not tried rdesktop but that might work as well.

NOT using "guest additions" takes a load off the developers so they can 
concentrate on normal functionality.

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