Restoring Complete Systems into VM

[ebita]

I have cloned 2 complete Legacy working systems using Clonezilla a) WINNT b) Win98. By complete legacy working systems I mean an entire harddisk of a working system complete with irreplaceable legacy software.

I have created 2 VMs, one for the WINNT and another for the Win98.

a) I have used Clonezilla to restore the WINNT image into the WINNT VM - it runs but I am unsure how to config the Network, Shared folders, USB, etc. Do I have to remove all the original hardware like network adaptors, drivers and install the VM equivalents? how? where are the driver files?

b) I similarly restored the Win98 system image into the Win98 VM - it shows a black screen, nothing working.

I have Googled many sources - all of them talked about installing fresh OS, like installing Win98 from CDROM but how about Complete Systems? What are the overall considerations?

Kindly post this on an appropriate Forum.
Thanks

[scottgus1]

What you are doing is a "P2V" for Physical to Virtual. Google "P2V site:forums.virtualbox.org"

NT may not have gust additions and 98 does not have them. So you will have to set up a network as if you were running a physical PC. The Virtualbox network styles will provide a network card that may have available drivers in the guest OS - be sure to pick the right guest OS template when setting up the guest. (If not you may have to find the drivers, bundle them up as an ISO, attached to the guest's CD drive, to get the drivers into the guest.)

98 in a guest has been mentioned a few times on the forums, take a look around for it (same "site:forums.virtualbox.org" search pattern)

[ebita]

Thanks, will search under P2V