At 11:19 AM 1/29/2016, Ali wrote: >> The other hassle is having to essentially rebuild an Win98 (or any >> other) machine from scratch in order to try to replicate an existing >> setup. I haven't seen any way to "capture" an existing machine and all >> its disk partitions -- especially when there's multiple partitions of >> different types -- and import it into the virtual world. That'd be great. > >Not for free but AFAIK VMWare Pro allows you to do this.
Yes, the VMware Converter can do this. It'll create a VM from a disk image. No one has mentioned the Windows Virtual PC, a Microsoft product, that lets you run Windows XP apps in a virtual environment under Windows 7 Pro, letting XP apps run in their natural window on the 7 desktop, or you can run the virtual XP machine desktop in its own window. It will also run Windows 98, with a few gotchas: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/virtual_pc_guy/archive/2010/05/27/installing-windows-98-on-windows-virtual-pc.aspx - John