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supports Win98, the problem with Win98 is that most early versions booted off of a floppy to install. If you hava working box of win 98 you can try p2v.exe from vmware, its free, not sure how well it works though.
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A copy of Windows 98 SE. If you don’t have a CD lying around from the Golden Age of Gaming (i.e. The 90s) with Win98 on it well, I can’t help you. If you don’t have a CD lying around from the Golden Age of Gaming (i.e. The 90s) with Win98 on it well, I can’t help you. If you get any more warnings about a locked CD ROM just click YES, it’s just trying to remove the tools image. 6 thoughts on “ Windows 98 on VMWare Player ” sub_blam says. (I have VMware Player v5 and Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit). Need help cloning windows 98 system with applications on it. As long as they are not going to move the image the OEM is fine. I've loved Windows 98 Second Edition, it made my life a lot easier in those times.
First thing is taking any image will be useless
As the necessary drivers for the Virtual Machine will no be present so those images will not work.
You also need to remember that NT requires a HDD with 1022 Cylinders and will not allow any more to be utilised so you may have some problems getting NT to work even in a VM.
What you can try is use Ghost or something similar to clone the drive and then clone this to the VM and do a repair install and maybe that may work but you are going to need a lot of HDD space.
Depending on the VM Software that you are using this may not even be possible but as you have said nothing to make anyone think otherwise you can try that and hope for the best. If you need a copy of Ghost Herin's has a version available for download on a Bootable CD here
http://tinyurl.com/fwa22
I don't know if it will work but it's at least worth a try.
Col
You also need to remember that NT requires a HDD with 1022 Cylinders and will not allow any more to be utilised so you may have some problems getting NT to work even in a VM.
What you can try is use Ghost or something similar to clone the drive and then clone this to the VM and do a repair install and maybe that may work but you are going to need a lot of HDD space.
Depending on the VM Software that you are using this may not even be possible but as you have said nothing to make anyone think otherwise you can try that and hope for the best. If you need a copy of Ghost Herin's has a version available for download on a Bootable CD here
http://tinyurl.com/fwa22
I don't know if it will work but it's at least worth a try.
Col
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Taking images is not necessarily usless...
If you use an imaging program such as Norton Ghost or Acronis' True Image, the issue you run into is after you restore the image to the VM. New OS' deal with new hardware much better than the 9x class of OS (I.E.: 2000 and XP Pro). there is one solution that I have found that seems to work much better than either of the two that I have mentioned. That is Symantec Backup Exec System Recovery. It has a feature that allows a 'bare metal' restore to dissimilar hardware. Although, I have run into the same issue with 98se that certain or the VMware Server 'hardware devices' aren't recognized. After a little massaging, I was able to remedy that issue. The biggest drawback to Symantec Backup Exec System Recovery is it is expensive.
I do agree with a previous post that installing from the original media is the best/easiest way to minimize/eliminate problems.
I do agree with a previous post that installing from the original media is the best/easiest way to minimize/eliminate problems.
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Vmware Windows 98 Driver
I have a windows 98 PC that I need to create a virtual machine from.
I used CloneZilla to create an image and then restored that image into a blank VM in Player.
I am able to boot the VM now, but that is where the fun stops. I am plagued by an inability to get the drivers functional.
When I first boot, windows detects a bunch of new hardware and starts installing drivers, and eventually tells me I need to reboot. If I allow the VM to reboot, then it comes back to the windows 98 loading screen, and just hangs there forever.
So then I reset the VM, and boot into safe mode, and that works- windows 98 loads into safe mode and I can do some stuff, but not much.
The only way that I have found from this point to be able to boot again without safe mode is to delete a certain key from the registry.
The key in question is HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/ENUMS/ROOT/*PNP0C08
Windows 98 Vmware Image
The device associated with this key is 'Advanced Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI) BIOS'.
If I delete this key and reboot, I can get back into windows without safe mode, but I'm essentially back at square one. None of my drivers are installed, I go through the add hardware wizard it picks up a dozen or more devices (one of which is the ACPI) installs them and then says I need to reboot. If I reboot, I go back to the situation where it just spins forever on the windows 98 loading screen.
Basically it seems that this APCI issue is preventing all other drivers from getting installed. That means I can't insert a floppy, I can't load a CD/DVD I can't connect to the internet or network, I can't install the integration features, I basically can't do anything of any use.
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I've tried coming at this from various angles, but none of them really get me anywhere except back to square one- no drivers installed, and if I install anything and reboot, then windows just hangs at the loading screen. I've tried incremental loading, always fails immediately after l allow it to load vserver.vxd. I've tried using logging, then resetting, rebooting in safe mode and reviewing the log. In this case the log is filled with a bunch of font load failures, but that's about all I can see that is abnormal. The fonts do not fail if I remove that registry key and reboot again with logging enabled, so I have no idea how that factors into this issue, or if it even does.
There has just GOT to be some way for me to clone a functional windows 98 machine into a virtual machine, and I'm hoping that someone here has the know-how to get me pointed in the right direction.