10.5. Windows 98SE

Contributed by Benjamin David Lunt

Please read the message regarding software licenses in Section 1.6 before you install Windows 98 as a guest operating system in Bochs.

Windows 98SE has been reported to install from the CD-ROM, and run inside Bochs. Here are a few settings that seem to work well when running on a Windows10 host, running at 3.0Ghz.

romimage: file=D:/path/to/your/bios/BIOS-bochs-latest
cpu: model=corei7_haswell_4770
cpu: count=1, ips=55000000, reset_on_triple_fault=1, ignore_bad_msrs=1
cpu: cpuid_limit_winnt=0
clock: sync=realtime, time0=local
memory: guest=512, host=512
vgaromimage: file=D:/path/to/your/bios/VGABIOS-lgpl-latest-cirrus
vga: extension=cirrus, update_freq=5
pci: enabled=1, chipset=i440fx, slot1=cirrus