It looks like this (kind of) works on ovirt already. I was able to install win98 from cdrom on a VM with IDE disk. There are some issues: - The VM tends to hang during boot, choosing step by step confirmation (my first suspect was javasup.vxd) seems to fix this, this doesn't happen if I use the "-no-kvm" option with a local kvm install. - No network (no e1000 for win98 it seems) this can probably be fixed with a hook to add a ne2k_pci nic - Slow graphics, this can probably be fixed with a hook to use the cirrus adapter in stead of qlx or vga Working cli kvm start: qemu-kvm -m 512 -hda /var/tmp/win98.qcow2 -no-kvm -cdrom /var/tmp/win98se.iso -vga cirrus Some more info here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=774745 On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 7:27 AM, Eliezer Croitoru <eliezer(a)ngtech.co.il&gt; wrote: > I wanted to make sure I understand. > This guy comes to me with windows98 and says he must run this machine. > I don't really care about this machine but this is what he wants.. > Is there any options else then XEN that will run windows98 on a VM? > > Thanks, > Eliezer > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list > Users(a)ovirt.org > http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users