Hi Guys. I thought it would be fun to setup a windows 98 VM but do it with some native hardware from the 90s  passed through to make it authentic! In this video, you will see how to setup windows 98 as a KVM/qemu VM in unRAID. You will see how to run it with or without passed through hardware.  

 

Tomorrow i will upload the windows 95 guide as well.

 

 

Guide How to Setup a windows 98 VM

 

 

 

Edited April 24, 20179 yr by gridrunner

hi,

just wanted to drop you a well-deserved compliment on your videos I've watched them all a couple of times on youtube.com before I setup my new server.

 

Thank you for doing them.

 

@tinkertoytech on the twitters

Great stuff.

 

I guess theoretically, you could even run the PCI-Express to 2 PCI adapter board on an external GPU thunderbolt 3 enclosure, like as on egpu.io or https://9to5mac.com/2017/04/19/akitio-node-gtx-1080-ti-gpu-macbook-pro-gaming-egpu/

Edited April 25, 20179 yr by futaris

I did this for no other reason than to do it. thanks!

On 2017-4-26 at 1:54 AM, 1812 said:

I did this for no other reason than to do it. thanks!

Cool how did you get on. Did you pass any hardware?

2 hours ago, gridrunner said:

Cool how did you get on. Did you pass any hardware?

 

No, no hardware. I don't have anything old enough! But running some games has been fun. I've been tempted to find games I use to play years ago.... 

What is the oldest cpu/chipset that supports hardware passthrough? could be it done on P4 xeons for example?

Edited May 24, 20197 yr by damacx

im trying to follow the video  but there are no vdisks to download that win98 is already installed..  did you make a video that shows how to start from scratch making a win98 install  as I installing win98  on a 15gb setup...  I do windows setup choose the for larger disks.. it installs takes a long time even though its on a SSD  and then reboots but cant boot up   or it halts at 60%

 

do you have documentation  how to setup win98 from a fresh install    I tried RAW and qcow2  as vdisk   but its not working I cant install it

found the vdisk  downloading it now  had to load the space invader video from youtube and was in there  and here from video it sounded like you download it from winpcworld..

hopefully it works as fresh installs don't work so far on unraid 😞 

is there a way to fix the mouse issue  its not    sync  so  I cant click on anything... is there a setting to set for the mouse

 

Sorry to bump an old thread but @SpaceInvaderOne did you ever get around to the 95 guide? I can't find anything related to it.

Hey @SpaceInvaderOne, I know this is a very old thread, but if you're still open to helping, I could use some!

 

I downloaded your disk image for Win 98 and followed the instructions, but every time I try to boot it up, it just tells me that the disk isn't bootable.

 

Any ideas? Does this still work for you on newer unRAID versions?

 

Thanks!

Is anyone running a W98 VM? I have a compatible NVS-440 Quadro, CMI8738 Sound Card, but USB may be an issue as W98 only supports USB2 with drivers, some patchy reports of ONE USB3 card working

25 minutes ago, methanoid said:

Is anyone running a W98 VM? I have a compatible NVS-440 Quadro, CMI8738 Sound Card, but USB may be an issue as W98 only supports USB2 with drivers, some patchy reports of ONE USB3 card working

@SpaceInvaderOne has a win98 running with old graphics card. But to get old cards to work you need tweaks to XML on newer Unraid vers. We have added support for overrides in the next release.

<qemu:override>

<qemu:device alias='hostdev0'>

<qemu:frontend>

<qemu:property name='x-vga' type='bool' value='true'/>

</qemu:frontend>

</qemu:device>

</qemu:override>

 

Also he has 

 

https://unraid.net/community/apps?q=win98#r

 

also post here we found more info.

https://forum.mattkc.com/viewtopic.php?t=188