When formatting is complete, label the hard drive volume as desired (e.g. Proceed with the formatting “Y” when prompted. Again, select “1” to boot with CD-ROM support.Īt the DOS A:\> prompt, type format c: to complete the process of partitioning and formatting your hard drive. Hit “Esc” to exit fdisk, then close the QEMU window entirely to “turn off” your virtual machine.īack in your terminal, hit the Up Arrow key and restart QEMU again (with all the same flags/settings). Select “1” again to create a Primary DOS Partition.įinally, select “Y” to use your entire 2 GB hard drive for the Primary DOS Partition. In the fdisk (Fixed Disk Setup Program) menu, Enter choice “1” to create a DOS partition on your hard drive. Type “Y” and Enter to format your hard drive with the NTFS file system and allow for formatting drives over 2GB. This is obscurely asking how you would like to format the blank hard disk drive: FAT16 or FAT32. Type fdisk then hit Enter.ĭOS will ask if you want to “enable large disk support”.
The Windows 95 installer was distributed on a CD-ROM but was not bootable - so if you’re starting from scratch/a blank hard drive like we are, you needed a boot floppy in addition to the Windows 95 installer to get set up.Ī QEMU window should open and you will boot to an MS-DOS prompt: Select or type “1” to boot your virtual machine with CD-ROM support. -boot a directs the virtual machine to boot from the floppy drive.-m 256 assigns 256 MB of RAM to the virtual machine.
#ONLINE WINDOWS 95 EMULATOR PC#
qemu-system-i386 calls QEMU’s generic 32-bit x86 PC emulator (ideal for mid-90s Windows!).$ qemu-system-i386 -m 256 -vga cirrus -soundhw sb16 -net nic,model=pcnet -hda WindowsHDD.img -fda Windows95_boot_disk.img -cdrom Win95_installer.iso -boot a It allows you to create a disk image that goes up to 2 GB withoutĪctually taking up that much space on your host storage! The qcow2 format is a disk image format unique to QEMU optimized for emulation and virtual machines.This command calls QEMU’s program for manipulating and creating disk images ( qemu-img) and directs it to create a blank disk image with a maximum size of 2 GB and using the “qcow2” file format.$ qemu-img create -f qcow2 WindowsHDD.img 2G
(cd, space, drag-and drop the “Windows95” folder on to the terminal screen, hit Enter) Open a command line terminal (Terminal in MacOS/Linux, Command Prompt in Windows)Ĭhange directory into the “Windows95” folder you downloaded during Setup (e.g.
Please make sure you have followed all the steps and instructions in Setup before proceeding. We recommend reading or completing a command line tutorial before attempting this section of the workshop toĮnsure that you are comfortable with basic conventions and principles of using command line software. If you have never used the command line before, NOTE: Again, QEMU is primarily a terminal or “command line” application. Virtual machine using the emulation/virtualization application QEMU (Quick EMUlator). Using the following steps, we will now demonstrate emulation in practice by creating a Windows 95
#ONLINE WINDOWS 95 EMULATOR MAC#
Boot a Windows 95 virtual machine in QEMUīoot a Mac System 6 virtual machine in Mini vMac
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