Use the slider to select the size of the virtual drive (for the purpose of this tutorial a size of 8GB was selected).To begin start VirtualBox and click the New icon.

Optional – A fully installed version of Anyburn to create ISO images (download from here).

SciTech Display Doctor Version 7 Beta Driver (an ISO image can be downloaded from here).

It has been noted that Window Defender (at the time of writing) flags the Auto-Patcher 2008 Upgrade executable file (AP2008UP.EXE) as a Trojan so this file will not be included in this tutorial.

Auto-Patcher December 2007 Full (downloaded from here).

A Windows 98 boot disk image (a diskette image can be downloaded from here).

This tutorial uses an ISO image of Windows 98 Second Edition (Retail). This can either be an original CD or an ISO image.

A copy of Windows 98 (and it’s Licence Key).

This tutorial uses VirtualBox Version 5.2.6 (for Windows hosts) with the VirtualBox 5.2.6 Oracle VM VirtualBox Extension Pack installed (both can be downloaded from here).

A fully installed version of Oracle VirtualBox.

In order to follow this tutorial the following is required: For clarity any information boxes describing the mouse cursor capture from Host Machine to Virtual Machine are ignored in the step by step guide. Likewise, if you find anything else please comment as I’m sure anyone reading will appreciate further insights that have otherwise been missed.įollowing on from previous VirtualBox tutorial, (for Windows 95), this is a step by step guide on how to install Windows 98. However I can see people have been contibuting some useful comments below in my absense which might help out if you’re getting stuck.

Personally I’ve not had need of a Windows 98 VM for a while as I’m focusing on DOS gaming. but I still think this tutorial mostly holds up. Update: February 2022 – It’s been a few years since I wrote this tutorial and I understand things have probably moved on a bit with VirtualBox and the available drivers etc.

Windows 98 virtualbox image