[Pkg-virtualbox-devel] Bug#474959: Bug#474959: virtualbox-ose: Installation of

[Daniel Dickinson]

On Tue, 8 Apr 2008 10:40:47 +0200
Michael Meskes <meskes at debian.org> wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 08, 2008 at 03:35:26AM -0400, Daniel Dickinson wrote:
> > Windows 98 Second Edition fails
> 
> I'm sorry, but this is neither a Debian related bug report, nor one

Er, it could be specific to Debian due to packaging or library issues.
It may be something that belongs forwarded upstream, but dismissing it
out of hand for this reason isn't valid.

> that has any information about what's happening. Also you should keep

So ask for more info.  If there a way to give you an execution trace I
will.  All I _know_ is that the vm aborts when the first 'real' reboot
of windows 98 se as guest os is attempted.  It gets through the initial
splash screen, but dies before windows proper loads.  As I mentioned
previously it worked for me once, but before upgrading other packages
on my system.  This is and indication it may in fact be
debian-specific.  Until I try compiling from source I won't know.

> in mind that Windows 98 SE is not a supported OS for virtualbox VMs:
> http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Guest_OSes

Where at least one user has reported being able to get it working.
Also so on the forums.  It may not be supported by Innotek, but this is
the open source edition which can support it if the the community so
desires, and in fact Innotek's official position is that 98 support is
community responsibility because they don't consider it important for
their business.

Regards,

Daniel

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