Opened 17 years ago
Last modified 11 years ago
#20 closed enhancement
[feature-request] Win9x (95/98/98SE/Me) support as Guest OS — at Initial Version
| Reported by: | Technologov | Owned by: | |
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| Component: | other | Version: | VirtualBox 1.3.2 |
| Keywords: | Cc: | ||
| Guest type: | Windows | Host type: | other |
Description
Please support Win9x as a guestOS (primarily 98 is needed).
Plz do so for the folowing reasons:
a) Those OSes are still widely used b) Virtualization software (such as this) is heavily used for software QA purposes of backward-compatibility. Win9x is a supported platform for large number of software (both commercial and OSS), so it cut costs considerably. This is very big market that both VMware and VirtualPC supports well. c) It's still needed by legacy software that cannot be run on newer OSes that isn't updated anymore. d) For Windows-networks simulation, Win9x has lower memory and CPU requirements. This also helps if you have not-so-powerful host. e) help desks - consumer support for Win9x is still a requirement for many corporations and ISPs. Virtualization really helps here.
Currently, it installs, but fails to run, in both normal and safe modes it crashes on first boot. I would like to see this issues resolved, and later see Guest OS integration for Win9x.
