1. VirtualBox Guest Additions don't exist for Windows 98. VirtualBox Guest Additions work fine for Windows XP. Modern Macs do not support SMB Network sharing with pre-XP operating systems like Windows 98 (my old Leopard machine did it fine, my new Mavericks machine won't do it at all), otherwise, you could switch on sharing with your Win98 virtual machine, and access files on there in OSX's Finder.
2. Windows 98SE on VirtualBox (with video and audio drivers) (updated March 2019) Why do this? If you feel nostalgic for a bit of Windows 9x action, or you just want to play some old games that are between DOS and Windows XP, you can either build a retro PC gaming rig, or you can test the water with VirtualBox.

1. Windows 98 Virtualbox Display Driver

Since these two binaries for VirtualBox OSE do not include the VirtualBox Guest Additions ISO, I needed a way to download them independently. This is why I must thank Mr. Everyone, enjoy VirtualBox, whether it's PEUL or OSE.

I setup an working Windows 98 (first edition) installation within VirtualBox 4.1.12. Network and graphiccard works fine. But I have trouble with mounting VirtualBox net shares.

First I tried vboxsvrsharename but Windows says it couldn't find the 'object'. Then I open command and searched for my gateway within ipconfig. With the IP address I tried 10.0.2.2share but the error message is the same as my first try.

Windows 98 Virtualbox Display Driver

Does anybody have successful mounted an VirtualBox net share within Windows 98?

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VirtualBox shared folders work by installing networking components into the virtual machine. These are installed as part of the Guest Additions. Guest Additions aren't available for Windows 98.

Try bridging the 98 VM to your network and accessing a network share, instead.

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I'm trying to set up file sharing between my Mac OS and Windows 98. I think the reason it's not working at the moment is that I haven't installed Guest Additions.

However, Guest Additions .iso is attached in Media Manager. It also looks fine in settings (see screengrabs, correct me if I'm wrong).

Settings:

In the virtual machine it doesn't automatically run, and if I try to manually run it nothing happens.

Bottom two .exe files don't run in W98, top .exe does nothing if you click on it:

Any ideas?

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VirtualBox Guest Additions don't exist for Windows 98.

VirtualBox Guest Additions work fine for Windows XP.

Modern Macs do not support SMB Network sharing with pre-XP operating systems like Windows 98 (my old Leopard machine did it fine, my new Mavericks machine won't do it at all), otherwise, you could switch on sharing with your Win98 virtual machine, and access files on there in OSX's Finder.

So what's the work around?Make a WinXP virtual machine.Either just use that instead, and use the Guest Additions to share files;Or use WinXP as a middleman - and network your Win98 VM with your WinXP VM, and copy your files from Win98 to WinXP and then to OSX.Most Win98 programs run fine in WinXP, so most people just use WinXP with Guest Additions, and leave it at that.

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