It's 2011, and ... you don't care. All you want to know is how not to be stuck at 640x480 and 16 colors on Windows 98 guest on VirtualBox and guest additions won't ever be made on Windows 98 or 95.
This graphics driver does not support Windows Aero / Direct3D on the guest. Instead, the WDDM graphics driver needs to be installed. To select this driver by default, add the command line parameter /withwddm when invoking the Windows Guest Additions installer.
- In this video we discuss installing windows 98 display drivers in #virtualboxThe virtualbox guest additions cannot be installed in win98 so we will be using.
- Although scrolling with wheel/touchpad no longer works in Windows 98 with USB tablet but works in Windows Me. In VirtualBox you can get every driver installed and working though for Windows 98/Me except the one device related to ACPI (PCI System Peripheral). With a hack, you can get AC97 working too in 98/Me with full DirectSound acceleration.
- Here is a video tutorial on how to get 256 colors in Windows 95, 98 and ME!Check out MS-GIL's video here for the file!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOCyxMD.
Now you have a .zip. Extract it.
Make a .iso from that folder with your favorite program.
You now can mount that on your Windows 98 image.
Graphics Driver Windows 98 Virtualbox 256 Colors
Update the driver from Device manager and point it to the VBE9XUNI folder and let it install. Reboot and you have color!YRMV, don't blame me if it doesn't work, etc. All I can say is it worked well for me.
Graphics Driver Windows 98 Virtualbox Download
I suppose you're also looking for AMD PCnet drivers at the same time. Stop. Don't panic yourself about it, but stop the vm, go to network, advanced, and change the nic to the one above it -- NOT the FAST one. (have your Windows 98 CD available, and ... it is installed.)
Windows 98 Graphics Driver Virtualbox
2015: updated to a different domain.