The machine now resets and boots with the following message. Devices > Floppy Drives > Choose Disk Image… Navigate to, and select, the Windows 95 boot disk image.To mount the boot disk image select from the VirtualBox top menu: In order to boot the machine a boot disk is required. This is because the Windows 95 CD is not bootable.
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In the case of the latter navigate to the relevant ISO file by clicking on the folder icon to the right and mount the ISO image. This will be either a Windows 95 CD in a Host Drive or an ISO image. The VM will now power up and ask for the location of a start-up disk. With the VM selected click the Start icon. Expanded the Advanced menu below and ensure the Adapter Type is PCnet-PCI II (Am79C970A)
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SciTech Display Doctor Version 7 Beta Driver (an ISO image can be downloaded from here).A Windows 95 boot disk image (a diskette image can be downloaded from here).This tutorial uses an ISO image of Windows 95 OSR 2.1. This can either be an original CD or an ISO image. A copy of Windows 95 (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.
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In order to follow this tutorial the following is required: While Windows 95 can be installed using the popular MS-DOS emulator DOSBox, Oracle’s VirtualBox offers an alternative, and for later versions (such as Windows 98) is essential. Likewise, if you find anything else please comment as I’m sure anyone reading will appreciate further insights that have otherwise been missed. However I can see people have been contibuting some useful comments below in my absense which might help out if you’re getting stuck.
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Personally I’ve not had need of a Windows 95 VM for a while as I’m focusing on DOS gaming. but I still think this tutorial mostly holds up.
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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.