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I've been having similar issues with Windows 3.11; trying to boot a qemu image I made a few years back and it looks like networking has died in the meantime, an
by tripflag 3y ago
I've been having similar issues with Windows 3.11; trying to boot a qemu image I made a few years back and it looks like networking has died in the meantime, and another image crashes when it exceeds some small amount of RAM usage. But at least there's nothing stopping us from running an older linux in qemu to easily use an older qemu version that way, avoiding the hassle of having to patch the source to work with recent versions of its dependencies.
- krylon 3y agoYou could try bochs. It's a full-blown emulator and probably much slower, but it might do a better job at giving 1990s software a comfortable environment.
- _mlbt 3y agoI haven’t tried it, but apparently DosBox-X can run Windows 3.1… https://dosbox-x.com/wiki/Guide%3AInstalling-Windows-3.1x https://dosbox-x.com/wiki/Guide%3AInstalling-Windows-3.1x
- iforgotpassword 3y agoActually, an old friend of mine works on long term archival of computing environments, and they still use a patched version of qemu 2.0 (iirc) for older systems for these reasons.