SpaceInvaderOne Posted April 24, 2017 Share Posted April 24, 2017 (edited) 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, 2017 by gridrunner 1 Quote Link to comment
TinkerToyTech Posted April 24, 2017 Share Posted April 24, 2017 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 Quote Link to comment
futaris Posted April 25, 2017 Share Posted April 25, 2017 (edited) 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, 2017 by futaris Quote Link to comment
1812 Posted April 26, 2017 Share Posted April 26, 2017 I did this for no other reason than to do it. thanks! Quote Link to comment
SpaceInvaderOne Posted May 3, 2017 Author Share Posted May 3, 2017 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? Quote Link to comment
1812 Posted May 3, 2017 Share Posted May 3, 2017 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.... Quote Link to comment
damacx Posted May 24, 2019 Share Posted May 24, 2019 (edited) What is the oldest cpu/chipset that supports hardware passthrough? could be it done on P4 xeons for example? Edited May 24, 2019 by damacx Quote Link to comment
comet424 Posted December 29, 2019 Share Posted December 29, 2019 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 Quote Link to comment
comet424 Posted December 29, 2019 Share Posted December 29, 2019 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 😞 Quote Link to comment
comet424 Posted December 29, 2019 Share Posted December 29, 2019 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 Quote Link to comment
OmgImAlexis Posted December 13, 2021 Share Posted December 13, 2021 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. Quote Link to comment
ms4sman Posted February 7, 2022 Share Posted February 7, 2022 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! Quote Link to comment
methanoid Posted May 26 Share Posted May 26 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 Quote Link to comment
SimonF Posted May 26 Share Posted May 26 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 1 Quote Link to comment
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