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willemjacobusse · July 3rd, 2008, 10:14 AM

I have been experimenting and installed windows 98 in a Parallels virtual machine on an Apple Mac Mini. It's working just fine.
I tried to do a similiar thing on a brand new PC, installing win98 in a virtual machine under Virtual Box (recently acquired by Sun) The motherboard in this machine is an ASrock Wolfdale and doesnt come with win98 drivers.
So win98 fails to install due to lack of drivers.
This raises some interesting questions:

Is the way Parallels and Virtual Box function fundamentally different? Does parallels maybe do a better job of virtualizing the hardware?
Or is the real difference in the hardware and can the lack of win98 drivers not be overcome?

July 3rd, 2008, 10:14 AM	#1 (permalink)
willemjacobusse Member Join Date: Jul 2005 Posts: 37	Virtual machine software questions I have been experimenting and installed windows 98 in a Parallels virtual machine on an Apple Mac Mini. It's working just fine. I tried to do a similiar thing on a brand new PC, installing win98 in a virtual machine under Virtual Box (recently acquired by Sun) The motherboard in this machine is an ASrock Wolfdale and doesnt come with win98 drivers. So win98 fails to install due to lack of drivers. This raises some interesting questions: Is the way Parallels and Virtual Box function fundamentally different? Does parallels maybe do a better job of virtualizing the hardware? Or is the real difference in the hardware and can the lack of win98 drivers not be overcome?