Have a situation where we have a working Win 98 box with critical software we can't risk losing. We want to do a Virtual PC situation.
Is there software that can run on Win 98 that allows a virtual PC?
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qwert231
M Kenyon
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ZippyV
Fired Up
Yes, Windows 98 is supported on VPC.
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stevo_
Human after all
I dont get it, you have some software that needs to run on 98, and so you want to run windows 98.. natively, and run virtualization software on it to do what?
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Windows 98 is supported as a guest OS but not a host OS - Supported host and guest operating systems [Wikipedia].
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jh71283
Throw new System.Beverage. OutOfCoffeeException()
I'm with stevo on this one.
Your software runs on win98, so why can't you run a '98 virtual PC within a XP / Vista environment?
You seem to be wanting to run a VPC '98 on Win '98 - therefore there is no need for the VPC. -
jh71283
Throw new System.Beverage. OutOfCoffeeException()
-OR- Do you mean that you want to clone the '98 machine into a virtual pc?
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qwert231
M Kenyon
We want to sample win XP on this box without wiping out the current software installation.jh71283 said:-OR- Do you mean that you want to clone the '98 machine into a virtual pc?
So, Windows 98 running a VPC of WinXP.
Is there something other than MS's version out there that might do this?
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Don't think so. Bear in mind also that a VPC solution isn't going to tell you anything about how XP would work on that hardware, as it is only exposed to an emulated subset of hardware that doesn't differ between machines.qwert231 said:
We want to sample win XP on this box without wiping out the current software installation.jh71283 said:*snip*
So, Windows 98 running a VPC of WinXP.
Is there something other than MS's version out there that might do this?
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qwert231
M Kenyon
Then I should probably set up the machine as dual boot.AndyC said:
Don't think so. Bear in mind also that a VPC solution isn't going to tell you anything about how XP would work on that hardware, as it is only exposed to an emulated subset of hardware that doesn't differ between machines.qwert231 said:*snip*
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