VirtualBox: March 2009 Archives

As I have some days off, I have time to play with rather historic things - thanks to Sun's VirtualBox application. In the last days I created a little Microsoft OS zoo on my Notebook:

• a small Linux machine acting as a router between real network and a virtual one
• a windows for workgroups 3.11 box including network, sound and internet explorer 3 (!) (9 diskettes)
  
• a windows 95a box including 16,7 million colour graphics and Firefox 2.0.0.20 (!) (15 diskettes)
  
• a windows 98 box including 16,7 million colour graphics (a CD)
  
• a windows NT 3.51 box (a CD)
  
• an OpenSolaris 2008.11 box to test Samba interaction :)

Thank god I found all these setup diskettes in my university here... Making disk images was not so funny though, diskettes are not really long term storage...

As a side effect, I have got Firefox 2.0.0.20 working on Windows 95, even if the installer does not like it.