Windows Virtual PC only officially supports Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7 as guest operating systems. Thankfully it has great compatibility and can run many operating systems that are not officially supported. I recently needed to setup a Windows 98 virtual machine for my wife – who has some genealogy software that will not even run on Windows XP.

To do this I created a new virtual machine and configured it with 64mb of RAM and a 16GB virtual hard disk. Phoenix Game Installer Website. Torrent George Harrison My Sweet Lord. I was then able to install Windows 98 with no real problems: Some things to be aware of when doing this: • I originally created the virtual machine with 128mb of RAM – but that caused problems for the setup program. Setting the memory to 64mb allowed the installation to go through successfully – and I was able to increase the memory after the operating system installation.

• I happen to have a bootable Windows 98 installation CD – but most Windows 98 installation CDs are not bootable. If you have one of these – you need to use a boot floppy – which means you will need for attaching floppy disks to virtual machines. • While I used a 16GB virtual hard disk – because that is all that I needed – I have tried this with disks up to 127GB in size and not seen any problems. After installation both networking and sound work correctly – but the video is kind of “sucky” and you need to capture / release the mouse whenever you use the virtual machine. Luckily you can address both of these issues by installing older virtual machine additions in the virtual machine. Doing this will give you: • Better graphics • Integrated mouse functionality • Desktop resizing But you will not get: • Clipboard integration • Time synchronization • Shared Folders • Printer / smart card sharing But how do you do this? The trick is to extract the old virtual machine additions out of a previous product.