In the fdisk (Fixed Disk Setup Program) menu, Enter choice “1” to create a DOS partition on your hard drive. Type “Y” and Enter to format your hard drive with the NTFS file system and allow for formatting drives over 2GB. This is obscurely asking how you would like to format the blank hard disk drive: FAT16 or FAT32. Type fdisk then hit Enter.ĭOS will ask if you want to “enable large disk support”. When MS-DOS loads, you should receive a prompt: A:\>.
The Windows 95 installer was distributed on a CD-ROM but was not bootable - so if you’re starting from scratch/a blank hard drive like we are, you needed a boot floppy in addition to the Windows 95 installer to get set up.Ī QEMU window should open and you will boot to an MS-DOS prompt: Select or type “1” to boot your virtual machine with CD-ROM support.
$ qemu-img create -f qcow2 WindowsHDD.img 2G (cd, space, drag-and drop the “Windows95” folder on to the terminal screen, hit Enter)
Open a command line terminal (Terminal in MacOS/Linux, Command Prompt in Windows)Ĭhange directory into the “Windows95” folder you downloaded during Setup (e.g. Please make sure you have followed all the steps and instructions in Setup before proceeding. We recommend reading or completing a command line tutorial before attempting this section of the workshop toĮnsure that you are comfortable with basic conventions and principles of using command line software. If you have never used the command line before, NOTE: Again, QEMU is primarily a terminal or “command line” application. Virtual machine using the emulation/virtualization application QEMU (Quick EMUlator). Using the following steps, we will now demonstrate emulation in practice by creating a Windows 95
Boot a Windows 95 virtual machine in QEMUīoot a Mac System 6 virtual machine in Mini vMac