On 12 February 2014 10:14, Margret Rosenberg
<margret.rosenberg at yahoo.com> wrote:
Hi, guys. I have some very old programs that
require Win 95 to run, and I've been trying to use Virtual Box to do that. I
installed Virtual Box on my new Windows 8.1 computer, but when I tried to install Win 95
it refused to recognize my perfectly good Win 95 installation disk (with a valid licensing
code) as a real O.S..
Note that Win95 predates the era of bootable CDs on PCs. The CD is not
bootable. It's just a disk of files. You'll need a bootable floppy
disk image to start the VM from.
Indeed. And if the Windows CD contains a boot floppy image (as many
do), you can point most VM's directly to that image and they will boot
from it.