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0 pointsnoobermin2y ago0 comments

How is it possible to do this? Isn't all you need is to emulate is at least a 386 or 486? They removed emulation of that cpu target?????

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LeoPanthera2y ago· 4 in thread

Not just the CPU, but also the older chipsets that Windows 9x thinks is current. It only supports emulation of chipsets much newer than those versions of Windows.

deaddodo2y ago

Where did you get that idea? Windows 98 is still a default template in VirtualBox 7.0 and fully supported:

https://youtu.be/yxJDK5xmTFQ?si=5yJScYparrURTAWH

And here:

https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Guest_OSes

You just don't get accelerated graphics or USB sharing.

LeoPanthera2y ago

You're being very generous. With no guest additions, I'd say that's "unsupported". It will work as well as any other arbitrary Intel software, but it won't be usable.

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Narishma2y ago

It happens to work but is not really supported. Mouse is super laggy, there are no guest additions and last time I checked it used a full CPU core at all times.

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inferiorhuman2y ago

VirtualBox defaults to emulating a PIIX3 chipset which is absolutely Windows 95 vintage.

https://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch03.html#settings-system

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PIIX#/media/File:Intel_sb82371...

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