This How-To is explaining how to install an operating system inside of another operating system. For example in this how-to were going setup a virtual machine running Windows98 inside a windows XP operating system using QtEmu a graphical user interface for QEMU written in Qt4.

Name: QEMU

HomePage: http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/

Function: QEMU is a generic and open source machine emulator and virtualizer

Name: QtEmu

HomePage: http://qtemu.org

Function: QtEmu is a graphical user interface for QEMU written in Qt4

1. First lets download and install the windows version of QtEmu.

http://www.qtemu.org

2. Next step is to install QtEmu. Just run through the steps, accept the license, choose the installation location, etc, etc.

3. Once you have finished the installation then run QtEmu & start setting up the virtual machine, choose 'create new virtual machine'

4. Now choose the 'windows 98' option.

5. Now place your virtual machine where ever you want it on your hard drive.  

6. Now choose the size of your virtual hard drive & press finish.

7. Once it has been installed now download the win98 boot image.

http://www.opensourcehowto.org/uploads/Win98Boot.img

8. Download the Win98Boot.img file into the Qemu directory.

9. Go to the command line by typing cmd in the run option in the start menu and type this command into it.

<Path to qemu-img.exe> create -f raw <Path the Windows 98 image file> <size of harddrive>

G:\Program Files\QtEmu\qemu>qemu-img.exe create -f raw E:\windows_98\windows_98.img 1000M 

note: for some reason i can't get the fdisk/format commands to work using QtEmu so i've added this command in to use qemu to format the hard drive

10.  The next step is to run QtEmu, there should be an icon on your desktop, then once it is running you need to start setting up the virtual machine, by setting how much RAM you want allocated to the virtual machine.

11. Afterwards following through the tabs setup the hard drive. This should be the same as the one created with the command line.

12. Following setting up the hard drive, setup the CD, with QtEmu you can not choose a CD drive, you must have an ISO ready.

13. Next is to setup the Floppy disk, once again QtEmu can not link to the system floppy disk drive, you need a floppy disk image saved, link it to the img file you downloaded earlier. Select the 'boot from floppy disk' option

14. Finally choose the tick box to enable the network.

15. Now run the startup command using the windows 98 boot image.

16. Once you have booted into the virtual machine format the virtual drive. Run fdisk to create a partition

17. Once you have created the partition then format the drive

format c: /s

18. From now on just follow the setup steps like you would any normal installation of windows 98. 

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Trouble Shooting:

Go to the wiki page

Go to the 'Contact Us ' Forum

Go to the how-to's Support Forum

External Links:

http://www.vmcasting.org/wiki/Qemu/

http://www.msfn.org/board/QEMU_98_ME_dummies_t61389.html