Pablo Sanchez wrote: > On Friday 23 January 2009 at 9:49 am, Daniel Hauck penned > about "[vbox-users] Windows 98" > >> The machine installs... but SLOW and it completed floods one of my >> processor cores. I cannot get guest additions to install as they seem >> only to support Windows 2000 and up. >> >> Anyone have any recommendations or tricks they know of to make this work >> better? >> > > Hi Daniel, > > I can't recall the details on why one shouldn't expect Windows 98 to > work with VBox. I think it was something to do how W98 handles > idling. > > My resolution was to use QEMU. May not be acceptable for your > situation ... but it worked well for what I needed: my youngest's boy > learning software. :) > > Cheers, The idling can be fixed by installing rain from:
http://cpu.simplenet.com/leading_wintech Without it, you will peg one CPU because Win98 does not halt the CPU when it is idle. The program was designed to aid in CPU cooling, but also works well for this. Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! _______________________________________________ vbox-users mailing list [email protected] http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users
