If you have one of the versions of VirtualBox 7.x installed on your host computer, you can skip enabling the file transfer features. If you are planning to run the virtual system using one of the old versions of VirtualBox, you can use your guest machine more efficiently by enabling these features, as Guest Additions will be supported in a suitable version. You can enable Shared Clipboard and Drag’n’Drop features in the Advanced tab of the virtual machine’s General settings, but this will not work in Win98. Therefore, click Settings before starting your virtual PC. Configure a new virtual disk size of 10 GB for Win98 and click Next.Ĭheck the virtual hardware summary information of the Win98 guest operating system you created and click Finish to close the wizard.Īfter preparing the Windows 98 virtual machine, you need to make some important settings in terms of performance. If there is a virtual machine you have installed before, you can add the virtual disk from this window. To do a clean system install, you need to create a new virtual hard disk. In the Hardware window, in the Base Memory section, set the RAM size of 1024 MB (1 GB) for Win98 and click Next. However, you can configure a smaller RAM size for a more stable installation in the virtual machine. The maximum RAM size of the Windows 98 system on a physical computer is 1.5 GB.
However, this may not be the case with older operating systems, so click Next to continue the manual system setup. You can make faster system setups with the unattended installation feature in the VirtualBox 7.x versions. To add a Windows 98 FE (First Edition) or SE (Second Edition) ISO file to the virtual computer you are preparing, select Other from the ISO Image section.įrom the table below the article, select the ISO file of the Windows 98 FE or SE operating system that you downloaded to your computer and add it. However, if you don’t want to fill up your host disk unnecessarily, it may be better to locate it on an external disk.
If you want to store the Windows 98 operating system on your host disk, leave the Folder location as default. If you see the 32 Bit architecture value instead of 64 Bit in the Version section while installing the more current operating systems of Windows, you have to manually change the architectural structure according to the system you will install. After running the VirtualBox software, start the virtual machine preparation wizard by clicking the Machine / New option from the tool menu or the New icon on the right.Īfter typing the name of the operating system you will install in the Name field in the virtual machine wizard, the values in the Type and Version sections will be automatically configured by the program.
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