Neither VirtualBox or VMPlayer would let me install Win98SE in a virtual machine on my Ryzen PC - both were rather faster but both had illegal operation / invalid page fault failures in Regsvr32 (and something else in VirtualBox) so didn't actually complete the install. Just tried VirtualBox on an …

xcomcmdr wrote on 2020-11-13, 22:12: There's BoxedWine or QEMU, too. I'd try the first one, first. WINE works with some programs, and not with others. For modern stuff, I let Steam use its Proton version. QEMU sort of works.

OSH wrote on 2020-11-13, 20:56: Have you tried PCEM/86Box? While it would be nice to have a better video card emulated.. PCEM - needs to be built rather than having a package. 86Box - Windows only, so no. I do know that KVM won't do it either (similar failure on installation reported).

Quick 'thank you' for this, Jon and the other contributors. Neither VirtualBox or VMPlayer would let me install Win98SE in a virtual machine on my Ryzen PC - both were rather faster but both had illegal operation / invalid page fault failures in Regsvr32 (and something else in VirtualBox) so didn't …