Can not install Win95

[Axel Magard]

My Win95 hangs when installation has started, right after checking the disk, when Windows attempt to copy first files for the installation. No error message, no progress. I have heard that Win 95 is not really supported but I am curious whether there are hints and tips available how to get it to work. My current VirtualBox version is 2.2.4, the problem also showed up with earlier version 2.2.0.

[Nikolay Igotti]

You can try to use raw mode (that is, System/Acceleration/Enable Vt-x/AMD-V) and see it works this way.

[rainbow]

Replying to ni81036:

You can try to use raw mode (that is, System/Acceleration/Enable Vt-x/AMD-V) and see it works this way.

I don't think that enabling VT-x/AMD-V is going to work at all. :(

[rainbow]

Do you have ACPI, IO APIC and Intel VT-x/AMD-v all turned off?

Also, is your hard disk image smaller than 32 GB and have you allocated less than 512 MB of memory and less than 8 MB of video memory to the guest?

[Nikolay Igotti]

I pointed variable to toggle, sure it shall be turned off :). I remember installing Win95 OSR2 on VBox around 2.0, if it's broken - it's clear regression.

[rainbow]

Replying to ni81036:

I pointed variable to toggle, sure it shall be turned off :). I remember installing Win95 OSR2 on VBox around 2.0, if it's broken - it's clear regression.

Make sure that you have ACPI, IO APIC and Intel VT-x/AMD-v all turned off or Windows 95 won't install. I installed Windows 95 under the latest version of VirtualBox and everything went successful without any problems for me.

[Axel Magard]

Turning off Intel VT-x/AMD-v solved the problem & the installation succeeded !

[Technologov]

This bug looks similar to bugs #5407, #2865, #3317

-Technologov

[Frank Mehnert]

Still relevant with VBox 3.0.10?