IMeganElisabeth wrote:So am I understanding correctly that's it's basically just like running an app in windows 10 and when you're wanting to go back to using the main OS there is some sort of close option at the top of the virtual machine application options window that allows for it close the virtual machine as simply as closing something like chrome and you're back on main OS? I'm just scared of somehow not being able to switch back to my windows 10 machine and it not booting windows 10 on startup or something. Ah, thanks very much for the suggestion. I've seen some tutorials where you have to install a ton of video and sound files etc.. will this most likely be the case for me trying to run a game? My apologies.
You got it. A virtual machine is just like running an app - that's part of the whole idea of it; it's completely isolated from your main OS so it can't cause any damage, by definition. It's in its own little bubble and it has no idea it's not running on a real machine.
It's like the Matrix for an operating system 😈
And this is exactly what DOSBox is, too, just a virtual machine specifically configured to run DOS. As a result you can run Windows 3.1 on it, since Windows 3.1 was designed to run on top of DOS.
Running Windows 98 in VirtualBox is just more complicated. It's totally doable but if you've never installed Windows 98 before on a real machine, let alone a virtual one, I wish you luck figuring out the idiosyncrasies.
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