I want to export my Win98 as a VM

[GermanTux]

Sorry to hear you bought crossover, and it still would not launch...that's rough. 

Again, have you tried installing Alice on XP, then running it in win98 compatibility mode?

[John Bee]

Let me partially disagree. I haven't used Win98 much in VBOX, but for the less time I have used it, it was fine.

Hi BPsoftware;

 I never said it didn't run properly. Heck, when I had it installed, it would boot up in less than 10 seconds.

 

[Nish]

Sorry to hear you bought crossover, and it still would not launch...that's rough. 

Again, have you tried installing Alice on XP, then running it in win98 compatibility mode?

I bought Crossover Office for the Shockwave (no kidding) and I bought Crossover Games for various Tomb Raiders and Alice.  Alice and two of the TRs being a disappointment.  With TRs I have some CD access problem (yes, I have the real, all mine I purchased those on CDs) but when you run in wine things are not so simple.  With Alice I am pretty sure it is a screen size hack and their forums are not so newbie friendly as I like - I may get it going yet.  A gold rating is pretty good though platinum the best.  I should be able to make this work but such a pity everything purrs on this last 98 install.

And nope, it absolutely flops for me in XP in 98 mode.  Though I have a new XP build that I am going to try it on before admitting defeat there.  But it is a frustrating blue screen or freeze up experience in XP at the least opportune moments, and I am not the only one.

Now getting back to the VM business, I have found several promising links referencing M$'s for well, it was 98 and now it is XP.  Again, I think I am two years too late for this boat. 

[MerReady]

Folks,

Win98 will not run well in Vbox Read this!

It may work better unedr Bochs or Qemu

Jase

This very true. I have spent many hours trying to find ways to run Win98 in a virtual machine in order to play old game. Trust me, its a dead end. I have even tried many "optimized 98 vm's" made for gaming for vmware that does a better job with directx than virtualbox and they were horrible too. If you can't get the games to run in WinXP you could try Win2000 sp3 if you have access to it. I haven't done that yet, but I remember I had games that would not run in XP, but did under 2000sp3. Make sure its 2000 sp3 and not sp4. 2000 sp4 and XP are too much a like.

Honestly if wine won't work then your best bet is to use a Win98 machine. If you don't have a old computer kicking around then I would suggest checking with your local online freecycle. All you do is post that your looking for an old computer. Hopefully someone will have one to give away. Get yourself a cheap KVM switch and your set.