On Friday 23 January 2009 17:13:57 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. :)
In situations where the guest additions are really necessary for performance, video, etc., forget win98 with vbox. Vbox is dependent upon the guest additions. Qemu, on the otherhand, presents common hardware for emulation and has no problem with win98. However, it is still too slow to be of much use. _______________________________________________ vbox-users mailing list [email protected] http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users
