[Users] What settings are needed to run windows 98 on a VM?

[Sander Grendelman]

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 at ngtech.co.il> 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
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