It may help to gather some more information from the guest side. In the virtualized Windows XP system that is mysteriously not connecting to the Internet, install the VirtualBox guest additions (by clicking Devices Install Guest Additions; see the manual for more information). Reboot, and see if you can connect to the Internet. Problem started when I tried to connect my Windows 98SE PC via a Linksys router and Belkin wireless card installed on PC. PC was able to find the router, but not the internet. Two routers and two wireless cards later, I finally gave up and had the cable installed upstairs where the PC is. Host: Windows 10 Pro 64 bit Dell OEM 4gb ddr3 core i5 2500 3.30ghz 4 core 4 thread 128 gb samsung ssd 1tb usb wd my passport hdd which virtualbox is running off. Guest: Windows 98 SE 384mb RAM 2gb disk all other default settings for windows 98. Internet works perfectly on host (Ubuntu 13.04, 32 bit, fully updated) but cannot connect to internet on guest Windows 7 (under Virtualbox 4.2). Have tried NAT and Bridge Network - none worked. I had internet connection in the guest OS a couple of months ago, but I haven't tried the virtualbox since and now it's gone for some reason.
- Windows 98 Virtualbox Internet Connection
- Windows 98 Virtualbox Internet Explorer
- Windows 98 Virtualbox Internet Download Manager
Windows 98 Virtualbox Internet Connection
Also, according to various Internet sources Windows 98 doesn't even support IO APIC in the first place which makes this issue even more mysterious. Anyways, it's up to you to investigate and solve this bug. Considering Windows 98 SE is a dead unsupported OS I'm not even sure it's worth your efforts but a lot of people will be disappointed.
I have successfully created a functioning Windows 98 VM in VirtualBox by following the tutorial in this forum. However, I'm still unable to use the internet. According to the topic, I'm supposed to change the modem settings of the VM to NAT and AMD PCNET-II and then have Windows 98 detect it. That part went fine, as soon as Windows started, it detected the modem. When it prompted me for the drivers, I realized the Windows 98 SE disc I have didn't have the drivers for it. I've been all night looking on Google for those drivers without luck. Does anyone here have a success story involving a Win98 VM and working internet? If you have the drivers, can you share? Or maybe there's another way?So my mint-condition copy of Windows 98SE arrived today and after work I got it setup in VirtualBox. Much easier than Windows 95 (and much easier than the way many folks on the net did it). I googled it quickly to see what people ran into but figure screw it, why I don’t I just do things my usual way and find out for myself? See my previous post about Win95 to see my versions/specs that I’m running this on.
Unlike it’s predecessor, Win98 can boot off the CD and doesn’t actually need the startup disk. Once you create the HD (I chose VDI again) for it, be sure to go into Settings > System and disable hardware acceleration again like we had to for Win95 (UNCHECK “Enable VT-x/AMD-V”). If you don’t do this, you’ll receive a “Fault outside of MS-DOS Extender” error.
Then when you boot, select your CD drive with Win98 and you’ll be brought to a screen asking to boot to the local HD or the CD. Choose CD since you don’t have anything on the HD yet and it will start the dos-based setup. It’s just a few [Enter]’s and then it’s asking you to reboot to begin the GUI-based install.
Then it’s just go through the GUI wizard and do as it asks. When the file copying process finished I had to reboot. When loading for the first time and before getting to the next stage of install (setup: detecting pnp, setting date/time, etc) I got a blue screen. I remembered seeing something somewhere about turning on ACPI so I closed down the VM and turned that on (Settings > System). However, this significantly slows down response time so after I finished getting it all setup I turned this off again and it booted fine.
Windows 98 Virtualbox Internet Explorer
Once up, you dont get the internet setup Wizard like the Win95 install. When you launch IE it tries to go through a wizard to detect your modem and wont do anything else. You have to go into the control panel, open internet options, go to the connection tab, and click the setup button at the top to setup to use as a LAN. I didn’t have to fill out my gateway but it was probably because my first attempt to get the internet working without a modem was to go into my network adapter properties and configure TCP/IP with my gateway (router) IP.
Windows 98 Virtualbox Internet Download Manager
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And that was it, super easy. Didn’t have to create a boot iso or any kind of iso. No special storage setup. I suggest leaving it to boot to CD until you get to the desktop and setup is done. Then you can go into Settings > Storage (for the VM) and remove the CD drive.