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

[Eliezer Croitoru]

Thanks,

I have used kvm with command line in the past but I an using now 
virt-manager.
In virt-manager I am almost sure that I will need to enter it somewhere 
but I am not sure where it would be.
I have changed the CPU type but I needed to change the domain type from 
"kvm" to "qemu".
Using this line
<domain type='qemu'>
instead of
<domain type='kvm'>

Which I was unable to understand how to change using the virt-manager menus.

Thanks,
Eliezer

On 21/01/14 16:52, Sander Grendelman wrote:
> 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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