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Installing Windows 3.11 In VirtualBox?
Posted: 6. Jul 2009, 05:33
by Bioran23
Hi there, I have an .exe of Windows 3.11. How can I install it onto a VirtualBox machine?
Re: Installing Windows 3.11 In VirtualBox?
Posted: 6. Jul 2009, 20:42
by stefan.becker
What do you have exact? Windows 3.11 or a program for Windows 3.11?
Re: Installing Windows 3.11 In VirtualBox?
Posted: 6. Jul 2009, 20:43
by baf
Also remember windows 3.11 needs an already installed dos.
Re: Installing Windows 3.11 In VirtualBox?
Posted: 10. Jul 2009, 11:20
by Bioran23
I have Windows 3.11 from Microsoft Technet, which offers itself as an .exe file.
@baf - How would I be able to do this?
Re: Installing Windows 3.11 In VirtualBox?
Posted: 10. Jul 2009, 14:16
by fixedwheel
Windows 3.11 is an application program offering graphical workplace, it needs a DOS operating system which was sold separately.
Maybe Windows 3.11 runs under FreeDOS (i dont know). Some versions of DR-DOS (OpenDOS) 7.x were free available, IIRC open sourced (dont know the exact legal status) - and IBM gives away a chinese version of PC-DOS for free, as well as a version bundled with some server utilities:
see wikipedia page, scroll down
Else (try to) buy a copy of MS-DOS 6.22 ...
Re: Installing Windows 3.11 In VirtualBox?
Posted: 11. Jul 2009, 10:21
by bobdevis
If you want Win 3.11 I advice you to look at
Dosbox and not VBox. Win 3.11 seems to run
quite well on it.